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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 4, 2002Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:06 PM CDT for Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 2 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, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDTHail 2Matador, TXSpotters affiliated with the Matador FD reported hail larger than golfball size. Homes and automobiles were damaged and thousands of acres of crops were destroyed.
Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDTHail 2.75Matador, TXStorm spotters affiliated with the Matador FD reported golfball to 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4073 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 159 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

622 
WFUS54 KLUB 042206
TORLBB
TXC345-042230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
505 PM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MATADOR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADO WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BASEBALL SIZED HAIL OR LARGER
  FROM MATADOR TO JUST NORTH OF ROARING SPRINGS.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MATADOR...

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 3420 10106 3384 10093 3396 10054 3431 10058

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall50 min
Jun 4, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall47 min
Jun 4, 1:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing49 min
Jun 4, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress42 min
Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle47 min
Jun 4, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey54 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock49 min
Jun 4, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale50 min
Jun 4, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley43 min
Jun 4, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLubbock23 min
Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock45 min
Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale60 min
Jun 4, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd44 min
Jun 4, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock45 min
Jun 4, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley46 min
Jun 4, 4:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHale, Lubbock2 hr
Jun 4, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lubbock48 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley48 min
Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd65 min
Jun 4, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale30 min
Jun 4, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle33 min
Jun 4, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall47 min
Jun 4, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley41 min
Jun 4, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley42 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.