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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 6, 1999Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1999, 7:50 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1999, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Stonewall County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4196 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

640 
WFUS1 KLBB 070053 RRA
TORLBB
TXC433-070115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
750 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STONEWALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH
  OF PEACOCK...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAYTON...MOVING        
  NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE
  SWENSON...PEACOCK AND ASPERMONT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
352 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 AM    JAYTON                    TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
06/06/99   KENT                           JUST SMALLER THAN GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED.
Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
352 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 AM    JAYTON                    TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
06/06/99   KENT                           JUST SMALLER THAN GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent40 min
Jun 6, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall48 min
Jun 6, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBStonewall3 hr
Jun 6, 9:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKent3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.