On Monday, May 17, 2021 the City of Lubbock received a tornado warning from the National Weather Service in Lubbock. With the threat of severe weather, Lubbock and Texas Tech offer students and citizens several warning notification systems. The last time Lubbock received a tornado warning was on April 30, 2012, according to Justin Weaver, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service in Lubbock. Sending out tornado warnings is something the NWS is careful about. âWeâre very careful about issuing tornado warnings in the first tornado warning we issued for the city of Lubbock in nine years,â Weaver said. There are two weather advisories that come from NWS, watches and warnings. Watches, according to Weaver, are when conditions are favorable for severe weather to happen. Warnings are issued when the threat of severe weather is high enough that the public needs to be warned about.