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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 2012Cottle County, King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2012, 7:26 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 3 reports 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: May 30, 2012, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	10 S Paducah, TX
May 30, 7:40 PM CDT	HAIL 4.5	10 S Paducah, TX
May 30, 7:43 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	Grow, TX	GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL FALLING

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
May 30, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

460 
WFUS54 KLUB 310026
TORLUB
TXC101-269-310100-
/O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0010.120531T0026Z-120531T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
726 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
  SOUTHWESTERN COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 725 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 DELWIN...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF PADUCAH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GROW...FINNEY...
  DUMONT...DELWIN AND CHALK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3373 9999 3361 10051 3379 10052 3389 10052
      3391 10023
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 326DEG 24KT 3388 10038

$$

MEADOWS

1 follow-up statement

415 
WWUS54 KLUB 310041
SVSLUB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
741 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

TXC101-269-310100-
/O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120531T0100Z/
KING TX-COTTLE TX-
741 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COTTLE AND
NORTHERN KING COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GROW...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF
GUTHRIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN KING COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3373 9999 3362 10048 3389 10047 3391 10023
TIME...MOT...LOC 0041Z 326DEG 24KT 3380 10032

$$

MEADOWS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	17 min
May 30, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, King	31 min
May 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, King	24 min
May 30, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	34 min
May 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	19 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.