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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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 2, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Tell, TX | Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail. |
| May 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Childress, TX | Law enforcement officials reported golfball to baseball size hail in the western portion of the city. |
| May 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Childress, 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 2, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 030031 TORLBB TXC075-030115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 730 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES EAST OF TELL OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHILDRESS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO 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...LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS 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 LQATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE! LAT...LON 3472 10042 3432 10042 3435 10002 3473 10010
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 48 min |
| May 2, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 40 min |
| May 2, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 51 min |
| May 3, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 30 min |
| May 3, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 52 min |
| May 3, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 45 min |
| May 3, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 49 min |
| May 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 49 min |
| May 3, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 27 min |
| May 3, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 32 min |
| May 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cochran | 3 hr |
| May 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 48 min |
| May 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 28 min |
| May 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 40 min |
| May 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 33 min |
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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.