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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT for Crosby County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crosby County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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, 7:32 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Crosbyton, TX | Off-duty NWS employees reported baseball 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 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 280013 TORLBB TXC107-280100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 711 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CROSBY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 706 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF RALLS... OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROSBYTON. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... CAPROCK... WHITE RIVER LAKE... 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 3373 10137 3346 10149 3339 10106 3377 10105
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby | 117 min |
| May 27, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 41 min |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 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.