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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2002, 3:07 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Deal, TX | Hail up to dime size was reported to be one foot deep in portions of town. |
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.
260 WFUS54 KLUB 042007 TORLBB TXC303-042030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 306 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 303 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER REESE CENTER. LEVELLAND. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... REESE CENTER... SHALLOWATER... TEXAS TECH UNIV.... LUBBOCK INT. AIRPORT... 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 3371 10208 3351 10207 3360 10168 3380 10180
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, 3:30 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, 5:40 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 |
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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.