Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crosby County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:18 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Ralls, TX | Spotters affiliated with the Crosby County Sheriff's office reported baseball size hail. |
| Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Crosbyton, TX | |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Broadway, TX | Baseball size hail destroyed thousands of acres of crops. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLUB 050143 SVRLBB TXC107-050245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 842 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CROSBY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 840 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A WIND GUST IN EXCESS OF 75 MPH 5 MILES WEST OF LORENZO...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF SLATON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... LORENZO... RALLS AND CAPROCK... CONE... CROSBYTON... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. SHORT LIVED SPIN-UPS ALONG THIS GUST FRONT MAY TAKE ON THE APPEARANCE OF A TORNADO. WIND GUST MAY BE STRONGER WITH THESE FEATURES. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3382 10156 3345 10156 3349 10105 3384 10107
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 111 min |
| Jun 4, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 16 min |
| Jun 4, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 62 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.