Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2002, 8:08 PM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Apr 17, 2002, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cottle County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Paducah, TX | Large hail broke windows and damaged automobiles. |
| Apr 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Paducah, TX | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a couple trees. |
| Apr 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Paducah, TX | The Cottle County Sheriff's Office reported tennis ball size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLUB 180108 SVRLBB TXC101-180200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 808 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS INCLUDES PADUCAH... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DELWIN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PADUCAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DELWIN AND CHALK... PADUCAH... SWEARINGEN AND CEE VEE... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3385 10052 3386 10008 3430 10005 3431 10047
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 37 min |
| Apr 17, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.