Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:40 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 5 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, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 6:08 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Floydada, TX | |
| Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Floydada, TX | The Floyd County Sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. |
| Jun 4, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Floydada, TX | Baseball size hail was reported in town. The hail damaged automobiles and the roofs of many homes. |
| Jun 4, 6:16 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Barwise, TX | |
| Jun 4, 6:38 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dougherty, 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 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
243 WUUS54 KLUB 042240 SVRLBB TXC153-042345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 538 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 645 PM CDT * AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL LARGER THAN GOLFBALLS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLOYDADA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF ABERNATHY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... AIKEN... FLOYDADA AND LOCKNEY... SOUTH PLAINS AND DOUGHERTY... CEDAR HILL... 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3428 10154 3384 10156 3384 10106 3429 10107
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, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 44 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, 5:45 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 |
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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.