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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 26, 2001Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
May 26, 2001, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-453 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2089 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLUB 262302
TORLBB
TXC219-262330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
601 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH    
  OF SMYER...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEVELLAND. THE           
  TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  ROPESVILLE...

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 3355 10221 3339 10227 3339 10208 3355 10209

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher41 min
May 26, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry50 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley33 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens58 min
May 26, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn41 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.