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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 6:24 PM CDT for Floyd County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 4 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
- Jun 5, 2001, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Matador, TX | A (landspout) tornado was reported over open country by storm chasers and local storm spotters. The tornado was nearly stationary. |
| Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dougherty, TX | A (landspout) tornado was reported over open country by fire department storm spotters. The tornado was nearly stationary. |
| Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Matador, TX | |
| Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Matador, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 052325 TORLBB TXC153-345-060015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 624 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS WESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 621 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOUGHERTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF MATADOR. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DOUGHERTY... MATADOR... ROARING SPRINGS... 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 TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE LAT...LON 3430 10083 3429 10110 3393 10111 3393 10081
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.