Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1999, 7:59 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1999, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1999, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County King County, TX
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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 34 min |
| May 16, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 42 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 |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.