Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2004, 5:41 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2004, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1755 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533 WFUS54 KLUB 022241 TORLBB TXC437-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 539 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SWISHER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEASTERN SWISHER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF TULIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... VIGO PARK... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3476 10165 3460 10174 3439 10148 3475 10148 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 25 min |
| Jun 2, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 50 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.