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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2005, 1:55 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- May 12, 2005, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2005, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLUB 121856
TORLUB
TXC189-121930-
/O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0003.050512T1855Z-050512T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
155 PM CDT THU MAY 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 153 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 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PLAINVIEW...OR NEAR HALE CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PLAINVIEW.
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION...VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0.
LAT...LON 3417 10193 3406 10179 3408 10157 3431 10157
3431 10184
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KLUB 121905
SVSLUB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
204 PM CDT THU MAY 12 2005
TXC189-121930-
/O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050512T1930Z/
HALE TX-
204 PM CDT THU MAY 12 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR HALE COUNTY...
AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE
MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 3 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF PLAINVIEW...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SETH WARD.
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION...VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3417 10193 3406 10179 3408 10157 3431 10157
3431 10184
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
| May 12, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 42 min |
| May 12, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 53 min |
| May 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 15 min |
| May 12, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 29 min |
| May 12, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 60 min |
| May 12, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 40 min |
| May 12, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 59 min |
| May 12, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 38 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 27 min |
| May 12, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 55 min |
| May 12, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 63 min |
| May 12, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 115 min |
| May 12, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 55 min |
| May 12, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 30 min |
| May 12, 5:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Swisher | 113 min |
| May 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 12, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 44 min |
| May 12, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 31 min |
| May 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 61 min |
| May 12, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 58 min |
| May 12, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 47 min |
| May 12, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 61 min |
| May 12, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 26 min |
| May 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 52 min |
| May 12, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 32 min |
| May 12, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock, Lynn | 63 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.