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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1999, 7:26 PM CDT for Dickens County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1999, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dickens County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dickens, TX | A storm chaser reported a tornado in open country on the Pitchfork Ranch. The tornado was on the ground for several minutes. No NWS survey was conducted. |
| May 16, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Guthrie, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLUB 170028 RRA TORLBB TXC125-269-170100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 726 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS WESTERN KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE...OR NEAR PITCHFORK RANCH IN EXTREME EASTERN DICKENS COUNTY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE GROW... GUTHRIE...FINNEY AND DUMONT. LAT...LON 3346 10072 3347 10028 3383 10017 3384 10065
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 28 min |
| May 16, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 35 min |
| May 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 46 min |
| May 16, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 42 min |
| May 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 31 min |
| May 16, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 49 min |
| May 16, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 32 min |
| May 16, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 15 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.