Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 4:01 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. 8 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, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Floyd County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 4:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Barwise, TX | The Floyd County Sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. A few hundred acres of cotton were destroyed. |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandhill, TX | Eight power poles were snapped by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| Jun 4, 4:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Barwise, TX | Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed a large feeder house. |
| Jun 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Muncy, TX | The public reported golfball size hail. |
| Jun 4, 4:24 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Floydada, TX | The Floyd County Sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. The hail damaged automobiles and the roofs of homes. |
| Jun 4, 4:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Floydada, TX | Spotters affiliated with the Floyd County Sheriff's office estimated 60 to 70 mph winds in town. The wind damaged the roofs of several homes and businesses, destroyed several center pivot irrigation systems, snapped at least 56 power poles and blew down trees |
| Jun 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 68 M | Floydada, TX | The West Texas Mesonet station northeast of town measured 78 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| Jun 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Floydada, TX | Golfball size hail was reported in Cedar Hill. |
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, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 4073 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
449 WUUS54 KLUB 042101 SVRLBB TXC153-042145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 400 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLOYDADA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... BARWISE... FLOYDADA... LOCKNEY... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3416 10156 3383 10155 3386 10113 3431 10121
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 42 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.