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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 6:48 PM CST for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 22, 2000, 6:48 PM CST (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stonewall County, TX
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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 230049 TORLBB TXC433-230115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 648 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN STONEWALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 645 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PEACOCK...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAYTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE SWENSON AND PEACOCK. 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 3306 10052 3314 10031 3338 10013 3339 10052
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, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 31 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 |
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.