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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 16, 1999King County, Texas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 16, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress28 min
May 16, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent35 min
May 16, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle46 min
May 16, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens, King34 min
May 16, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall42 min
May 16, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
May 16, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing32 min
May 16, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle15 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.