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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 5, 2001Crosby County, Floyd County, Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 7:14 PM CDT for Crosby County, Floyd County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 8 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, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Crosby County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Matador, TX
Jun 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Matador, TX
Jun 5, 7:19 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Floydada, TX	Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
Jun 5, 7:25 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Floydada, TX	Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
Jun 5, 7:28 PM CDT	Hail 1	Floydada, TX
Jun 5, 7:39 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Floydada, TX	Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Barwise, TX	Storm spotters reported baseball size hail.
Jun 5, 7:49 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Floydada, TX	Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.

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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLUB 060016
TORLBB
TXC107-153-345-060045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
714 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHERN CROSBY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
  SOUTHERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF
  FLOYDADA. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 
  10 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST 
  OF MATADOR MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  DOUGHERTY...
  FLOYDADA...
  CONE...

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

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 4 2 6 0.

LAT...LON 3411 10154 3368 10155 3372 10115 3384 10105
          3385 10067 3410 10086

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd	44 min
Jun 5, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	30 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.