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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 27, 2002Hale County, Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 3:49 PM CDT for Hale County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: May 27, 2002, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hale County, TX, Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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 27, 4:01 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Petersburg, TX
May 27, 4:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Abernathy, TX	Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
May 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Abernathy, TX	Amateur radio storm spotters reported tennis ball size hail. The hail destroyed at least 5000 acres of cotton.
May 27, 4:23 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Petersburg, TX
May 27, 4:34 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Abernathy, TX	A storm chaser reported golfball 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
May 27, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KLUB 272049
TORLBB
TXC189-303-272130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
348 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 345 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR             
  INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER ABERNATHY. THE SEVERE          
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST 
  AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  ABERNATHY...
  PETERSBURG...
  NEW DEAL...

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0.

LAT...LON 3391 10194 3369 10186 3371 10157 3411 10158

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
May 27, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Swisher	48 min
May 27, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	48 min
May 27, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
May 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Swisher	32 min
May 27, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	45 min
May 27, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd	58 min
May 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby	30 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale	23 min
May 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby	30 min
May 27, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	38 min
May 27, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby	46 min
May 27, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby	48 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.