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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2009, 3:58 PM CDT for Dickens County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 13, 2009, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2009, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickens County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:03 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Roaring Springs, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KLUB 132058
TORLUB
TXC125-345-132130-
/O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0039.090613T2058Z-090613T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
358 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
NORTHWESTERN DICKENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT
* AT 356 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 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
AFTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MATADOR...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROARING SPRINGS
AND AFTON.
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 3371 10068 3377 10105 3381 10105 3395 10103
3394 10064
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 277DEG 14KT 3385 10093
$$
RB/JW1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KLUB 132110 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2009 TXC125-345-132130- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-090613T2130Z/ MOTLEY TX-DICKENS TX- 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN DICKENS AND SOUTHERN MOTLEY COUNTIES... AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AFTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF DICKENS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROARING SPRINGS AND AFTON. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. LAT...LON 3371 10068 3376 10097 3395 10099 3394 10064 TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 283DEG 14KT 3379 10081 $$ RB/JW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 52 min |
| Jun 13, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Motley | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 22 min |
| Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 16 min |
| Jun 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 31 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.