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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 30, 2000Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2000, 2:05 PM CDT for Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
Apr 30, 2000, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 30, 2:20 PM CDTTornado F0Matador, TXA brief tornado touchdown in open country was reported by trained storm spotters. No NWS storm survey was conducted.

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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1736 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KLUB 301907
TORLBB
TXC345-301945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
205 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MOTLEY COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MATADOR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  LOCATIONS JUST EAST OF MATADOR...

QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MATADOR AT 203 PM CDT.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW!

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 806-745-4260.

LAT...LON 3409 10087 3398 10086 3393 10054 3415 10055

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent60 min
Apr 29, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza52 min
Apr 29, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley45 min
Apr 29, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
Apr 29, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza46 min
Apr 29, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent45 min
Apr 29, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby51 min
Apr 29, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens62 min
Apr 29, 9:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKent116 min
Apr 29, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent50 min
Apr 29, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley62 min
Apr 29, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby39 min
Apr 29, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent53 min
Apr 29, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens49 min
Apr 29, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens24 min
Apr 29, 10:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent, Stonewall59 min
Apr 29, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens64 min
Apr 29, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBStonewall60 min
Apr 29, 11:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBStonewall3 hr
Apr 30, 2:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock39 min
Apr 30, 4:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress51 min
Apr 30, 9:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBChildress, Hall3 hr
Apr 30, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley46 min
Apr 30, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens30 min
Apr 30, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing35 min
Apr 30, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle54 min
Apr 30, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing48 min
Apr 30, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCottle, King28 min
Apr 30, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle35 min
Apr 30, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum52 min
Apr 30, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry25 min
Apr 30, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.