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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 6:49 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 12, 2004, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Castro County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLUB 122349
TORLBB
TXC069-130015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
648 PM CDT THU AUG 12 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CASTRO COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 645 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 SOUTHWESTERN CASTRO
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIMMITT...MOVING SOUTH AT
15 MPH.
* MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CASTRO COUNTY WILL BE AFFECTED.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND MAY DO SO AGAIN.
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 3448 10247 3448 10241 3447 10240 3447 10234
3432 10230 3432 10252 3449 10252 3449 10249
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.