Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2002, 11:56 AM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- May 23, 2002, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Childress County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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 23, 12:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | (Cds)Childress Arpt, 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1081 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLUB 231656 SVRLBB TXC075-231745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1155 AM CDT THU MAY 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS THIS INCLUDES CHILDRESS... * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1154 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TELL...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHILDRESS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... CHILDRESS... KIRKLAND... LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3433 10042 3432 9999 3474 10000 3475 10040
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.