Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2009, 10:17 PM CDT for Crosby County, Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 16, 2009, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2009, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crosby County, TX, Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 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 16, 10:20 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Idalou, TX | UTILITY POWER FLASHES WERE OBSERVED IN VICINITY OF TORNADO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 170317 TORLUB TXC107-303-170345- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0021.090417T0317Z-090417T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1017 PM CDT THU APR 16 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CROSBY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. NORTHEASTERN LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1016 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 IDALOU...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF SLATON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE IDALOU. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3383 10170 3383 10145 3358 10163 3359 10177 TIME...MOT...LOC 0317Z 205DEG 25KT 3363 10168 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLUB 170333 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1033 PM CDT THU APR 16 2009 TXC107-303-170345- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090417T0345Z/ CROSBY TX-LUBBOCK TX- 1033 PM CDT THU APR 16 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN LUBBOCK AND NORTHWESTERN CROSBY COUNTIES... AT 1032 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED POWER FLASHES THREE MILES EAST OF IDALOU. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED THREE MILES EAST OF IDALOU...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF SLATON...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE IDALOU. THIS TORNADO MAY BE WRAPPED IN RAIN AND NOT EASILY SEEN. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE SHELTER NOW LAT...LON 3362 10161 3364 10170 3383 10167 3383 10145 TIME...MOT...LOC 0332Z 202DEG 15KT 3366 10163 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 16 min |
| Apr 16, 8:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 107 min |
| Apr 16, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Swisher | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 8:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Garza | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 24 min |
| Apr 16, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 19 min |
| Apr 16, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 9:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 9:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hale | 118 min |
| Apr 16, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lynn | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 26 min |
| Apr 16, 11:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 48 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2009Every tornado warning in 2009Tornadoes in 2009
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.