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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1999, 6:54 PM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mc Adoo, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 252358 RRA TORLBB TXC125-260045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 654 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 652 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCAD00 NEAR THE CROSBY/DICKENS COUNTY LINE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF DICKENS...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MCAD00 AND AFTON. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3384 10105 3368 10105 3360 10074 3384 10067
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, 1 hour 38 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, 1 hour 38 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.
Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 5 S PLAINVIEW TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 HALE BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
HERALD.Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 5 S PLAINVIEW TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 HALE BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
HERALD.Local storm report, May 25, 6:40 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
640 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM 7 WSW SPUR TX 2.5 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 DICKENS TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL
ALONG HIGHWAY 261.
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.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, 5:41 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 |
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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.