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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 25, 2000Castro County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2000, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
35 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), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1927 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

255 
WFUS54 KLUB 260227
TORLBB
TXC069-260300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
925 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CASTRO COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  EASTER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF HEREFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  35 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...RURAL    
  AREAS NORTHEAST OF EASTER...

A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NORTH OF EASTER AT 9:20 PM CST.

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 3474 10248 3460 10242 3465 10213 3474 10213

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd47 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza47 min
May 25, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby51 min
May 25, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall42 min
May 25, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent42 min
May 25, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens52 min
May 25, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall38 min
May 25, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer37 min
May 25, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent32 min
May 25, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing45 min
May 25, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro25 min
May 25, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens46 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley47 min
May 25, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher40 min
May 25, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle37 min
May 25, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall48 min
May 26, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall49 min
May 26, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.