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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2000, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 M | (Lbb)Lubbock Intl Ar, TX | The KLBB ASOS unit measured 66 mph wind gusts. |
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, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
606 WFUS54 KLUB 252329 TORLBB TXC303-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 628 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR: LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * STORM SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A TORNADO IN OR NEAR: NEW DEAL PERSONS IN OR NEAR NEW DEAL...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 52 min |
| May 25, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 51 min |
| May 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 40 min |
| May 25, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 42 min |
| May 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 45 min |
| May 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 42 min |
| May 25, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.