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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1999, 7:14 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 2, 1999, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Castro County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Nazareth, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 3151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
638 WFUS1 KLBB 030016 RRA TORLBB TXC069-030045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 714 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIMMITT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE NAZARETH AND HART. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3474 10234 3438 10235 3437 10200 3475 10200
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.