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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1999, 5:32 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 13 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1999, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1999, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Castro 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 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLBB 252234 RRA TORLBB TXC069-252245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 532 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 531 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CASTRO COUNTY 4 MILES TO THE WEST OF ARNIE ALONG FM 1075. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3475 10223 3462 10207 3474 10198 3476 10211 &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 11:32 AM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ021>044-251900- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1132 AM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE THROUGH TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW LOCATED OVER NORTHERN ARIZONA THIS MORNING WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD TODAY. A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN OVER WEST TEXAS AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. IMPULSES MOVING INTO THE REGION AHEAD OF THE UPPER LEVEL LOW... SURFACE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARIES AND THE UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WITH ISOLATED TORNADOS ALSO POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS...THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. JV
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:16 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-042>044-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 516 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 238 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM... HALL CHILDRESS MOTLEY COTTLE DICKENS KING GARZA KENT STONEWALL LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Special weather statement, May 25, 5:16 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-042>044-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 516 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 238 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM... HALL CHILDRESS MOTLEY COTTLE DICKENS KING GARZA KENT STONEWALL LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 41 min |
| May 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 46 min |
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 60 min |
| May 24, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer | 49 min |
| May 24, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 55 min |
| May 24, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley | 3 hr |
| May 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 59 min |
| May 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 24 min |
| May 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 63 min |
| May 25, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 59 min |
| May 25, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 42 min |
| May 25, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby | 56 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 64 min |
| May 25, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby | 31 min |
| May 25, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 65 min |
| May 25, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 44 min |
| May 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 62 min |
| May 25, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.