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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1999, 5:41 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1999, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1999, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Spur, 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 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 252243 RRA TORLBB TXC125-252345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 541 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF SPUR...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DICKENS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SPUR AND DICKENS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3365 10105 3339 10105 3340 10059 3370 10059
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, 5:16 PM CDT, 25 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, 25 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, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 13 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.