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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 7:29 PM CST for King County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 7:29 PM CST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County King County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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, 7:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Guthrie, TX | |
| Mar 22, 8:25 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Guthrie, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 230131 TORLBB TXC269-230215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 729 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CST * AT 725 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTH OF GUTHRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE GUTHRIE AND AREAS OF KING COUNTY EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF GUTHRIE. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATkH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!! TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 806-745-4260. LAT...LON 3339 10043 3340 10009 3375 10000 3384 10033
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, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 27 min |
| Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.