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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 8:35 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2007, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 23, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 240137 TORLUB TXC369-240200- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0002.070324T0135Z-070324T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 835 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN PARMER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS. * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF FARWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FARWELL...RHEA...AND BOVINA. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3433 10302 3432 10291 3458 10277 3471 10302 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 66 min |
| Mar 23, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 57 min |
| Mar 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 58 min |
| Mar 23, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| Mar 23, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 11:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 46 min |
| Mar 23, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 18 min |
| Mar 24, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.