Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 6:29 PM CST for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 22, 2000, 6:29 PM CST (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:45 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Jayton, TX | Golfball size hail covered the ground. |
| Mar 22, 7:03 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Jayton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 230031 TORLBB TXC263-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 629 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN KENT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 625 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CLAIREMONT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * JAYTON IS IN THE PATH OF THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!! TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 806-745-4260. LAT...LON 3307 10085 3294 10070 3313 10052 3340 10053
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 27 min |
| Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 8:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 1:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent, King, Stonewall | 15 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 40 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.