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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 8:36 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. 6 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
- May 29, 2001, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Childress County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Childress, TX | |
| May 29, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Childress, TX | |
| May 29, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Childress, TX | |
| May 29, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Childress, TX | The public reported golfball size hail. |
| May 29, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey, TX | Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed several barns. |
| May 29, 9:33 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Carey, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 2215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 300136 TORLBB TXC075-300230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 836 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES WEST OF TELL... OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF CHILDRESS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND COULD PRODUCE ADDITIONAL TORNADOES AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... TELL... CHILDRESS... KIRKLAND... IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 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 8 0 6 7 4 5 4 2 6 0. LAT...LON 3461 10041 3433 10041 3433 10001 3469 10002
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 41 min |
| May 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 55 min |
| May 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 42 min |
| May 29, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 61 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 15 min |
| May 29, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 34 min |
| May 29, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 12 min |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 15 min |
| May 29, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 12 min |
| May 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 62 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.