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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT for Swisher 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 29, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Tulia, TX | |
| May 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Tulia, TX | An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported golfball size hail. |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Kress, TX | Tennis ball size hail was reported by a television weathercaster. |
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 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 292244 TORLBB TXC437-292330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 545 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SWISHER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 545 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF KRESS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF TULIA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH... THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... TULIA... KRESS... CLAYTONVILLE... IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE 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 3453 10187 3432 10190 3432 10147 3467 10150
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 52 min |
| May 29, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 47 min |
| May 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 39 min |
| May 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 62 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 37 min |
| May 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 47 min |
| May 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.