Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2004, 5:12 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 78 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 17, 2004, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 78 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Briscoe County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 17, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105 WFUS54 KLUB 172212 TORLBB TXC045-172330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 512 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BRISCOE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 509 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 NEAR SILVERTON...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CAPROCK CANYON ST. PARK AND SILVERTON. 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 3462 10140 3438 10138 3442 10096 3475 10096 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 57 min |
| Jun 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lynn | 117 min |
| Jun 17, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 68 min |
| Jun 17, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 89 min |
| Jun 17, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.