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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 9, 2001Cochran County, Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT for Cochran County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cochran County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

970 
WFUS54 KLUB 092001
TORLBB
TXC079-501-092030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
ISSUED BY NWS MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
300 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2001

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHERN YOAKUM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 259 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF PLAINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN COCHRAN AND
  NORTHERN YOAKUM COUNTIES.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3316 10304 3315 10262 3360 10262 3360 10301

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 9, 2:29 AM CDT, 12 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:29 AM CDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before

SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
229 AM CDT THU AUG 9 2001

PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS MOVED UPPER LOW FURTHER WEST THAN CURRENT
LOCATION. THIS HAS ALLOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE
EASTERN AREAS MORE THAN FORECAST THE PAST FEW DAYS. WITH UPPER LOW
AND TROUGH AXIS NEAR THE NM/TX BORDER AND DISTURBANCES TO MOVE NORTH
ACROSS OUR REGION...WILL NOT DEVIATE MUCH FROM PAST COUPLE OF DAYS
AS THIS FEATURE WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY. THERE IS ENOUGH
INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE TO HANG ON TO AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE
SHORT TERM PERIOD. THERE IS A CHALLENGE THIS MORNING IN DECIDING
WHICH MODEL WILL BE MORE CORRECT IN THE POSITION OF THE FRONTAL
BOUNDARY THROUGH SATURDAY. BELIEVE IT WILL MAKE IT INTO THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES FRIDAY MORNING SOMETIME. PROBLEM COMES IN DECIDING WHAT TO
DO WITH TEMPERATURES. WILL BUMP UP TEMPS SLIGHTLY IN THE SOUTHERN FA
IN CASE FRONT NEVER DOES PUSH INTO THIS AREA. 850 TEMPS INDICATE ON
BOTH THE AVN AND ETA THAT KEEPING FRONT IN THE NORTHERN FA IS
REASONABLE. WILL LOOK AT THE MESOETA WHEN IT COMES IN TO SEE IF IT
IS CONSISTENT WITH THIS THINKING. HOPEFULLY THE COMBINATION OF THE
FRONT AND UPPER LOW WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN ACROSS THE
WHOLE AREA. FINGERS ARE STILL CROSSED.

FRIONA/TULIA          92  61  83  60 /  20  30  50  50
BROWNFIELD/LUBBOCK    98  67  91  65 /  20  30  40  40
CHILDRESS             98  71  87  66 /  20  30  30  40
ASPERMONT             99  75  94  71 /  20  30  30  30

.LUB...NONE.
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.