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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 11:29 PM CDT for Bailey County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2007, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bailey County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 240430 TORLUB TXC017-240500- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0009.070324T0429Z-070324T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1129 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BAILEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1127 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MAPLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ENOCHS...MULESHOE WILDLIFE REFUGE....MAPLE...NEEDMORE AND BULA. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3383 10296 3384 10262 3410 10261 3394 10299 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLUB 240442 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1138 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 TXC017-240500- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070324T0500Z/ BAILEY TX- 1138 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR SOUTHERN BAILEY COUNTY... AT 1120 PM CDT...LEVELLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT RELAYED A REPORT OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MORTON IN NORTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY. ALSO AT 1135 PM CDT...LEVELLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT RELAYED A SECOND REPORT OF A TORNADO ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORTON. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENOCHS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MULESHOE WILDLIFE REFUGE...NEEDMORE...ENOCHS AND BULA. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW LAT...LON 3383 10296 3384 10262 3410 10261 3394 10299 $$
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, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 25 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, 11:44 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 |
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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.