Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 7:11 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 19, 2002, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lynn County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Tahoka, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 200011 TORLBB TXC305-200045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 710 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LYNN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAHOKA. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... TAHOKA... HIGHWAY 380 WEST OF TAHOKA... 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 4 2 6 0. LAT...LON 3306 10202 3297 10162 3336 10158 3339 10188
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 55 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.