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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 9:05 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- May 25, 2000, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Dimmitt, TX | Large hail damaged roofs and windows and destroyed cotton crops. |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Summerfield, 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
866 WFUS54 KLUB 260206 TORLBB TXC069-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 905 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CASTRO COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 9 MILES WEST OF EASTER... OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF FRIONA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH... THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...EASTER. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 806-745-4260. LAT...LON 3439 10249 3453 10216 3474 10215 3475 10252
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 47 min |
| May 25, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 51 min |
| May 25, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 42 min |
| May 25, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 42 min |
| May 25, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 52 min |
| May 25, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 38 min |
| May 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 37 min |
| May 25, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 32 min |
| May 25, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 45 min |
| May 25, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 46 min |
| May 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 47 min |
| May 25, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 40 min |
| May 25, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 37 min |
| May 25, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 48 min |
| May 26, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 49 min |
| May 26, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 60 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.