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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1999, 9:16 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1999, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KLBB 260218 RRA TORLBB TXC069-260245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 916 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 913 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO IN DIMMITT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE HART AND DIMMITT. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3467 10216 3451 10244 3431 10233 3443 10200
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, 4 hours 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, 2 hours 44 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, 2 hours 44 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, 2 hours 36 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.Special weather statement, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 29 min |
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 17 min |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 59 min |
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 63 min |
| May 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 42 min |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 54 min |
| May 25, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 43 min |
| May 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 25, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd | 117 min |
| May 25, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 63 min |
| May 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 49 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 64 min |
| May 25, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 54 min |
| May 26, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 59 min |
| May 26, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 57 min |
| May 26, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 35 min |
| May 26, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 66 min |
| May 26, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 52 min |
| May 26, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 26, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lubbock | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| May 26, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 32 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 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.