Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2002, 4:59 PM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2002, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hockley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1027 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KLUB 132159 SVRLBB TXC219-132245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 456 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOCKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS INCLUDES LEVELLAND... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 12 MILES SOUTH OF LEVELLAND AND 5 MILES EAST OF LEVELLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... LEVELLAND... ROPESVILLE... SMYER... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3374 10250 3340 10250 3340 10208 3373 10209
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 44 min |
| Apr 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 39 min |
| Apr 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 28 min |
| Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 43 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.