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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2001, 5:32 PM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 20, 2001, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County King County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
950 WFUS54 KLUB 202232 TORLBB TXC269-202315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 532 PM CDT THU SEP 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF GROW...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF GUTHRIE. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... GROW... GUTHRIE... 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 8 0 6 7 4 5 4 2 6 0. LAT...LON 3384 10009 3380 10037 3341 10037 3341 9998
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 43 min |
| Sep 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 30 min |
| Sep 20, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 51 min |
| Sep 20, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 48 min |
| Sep 20, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 39 min |
| Sep 20, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 38 min |
| Sep 20, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 38 min |
| Sep 20, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cottle | 2 hr |
| Sep 20, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 47 min |
| Sep 20, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 29 min |
| Sep 20, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.