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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2012, 7:05 PM CDT for Floyd County, Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Oct 12, 2012, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:08 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Se Hale Center, TX | |
| Oct 12, 7:22 PM CDT | TORNADO | 8 W Lockney, TX | RELAYED BY NWS AMARILLO. SPOTTER REPORTED LOCATION NEAR LOCKNEY. TORNADO LOCATED ESTIMATED |
| Oct 12, 7:40 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | 3 S Hale Center, TX | CAR WINDOWS BROKEN BY HAIL AT REST STOP ON I-27 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751 WFUS54 KLUB 130005 TORLUB TXC153-189-130030- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0011.121013T0005Z-121013T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 705 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. EASTERN HALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 701 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 HALE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HALE CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HALE AND WESTERN FLOYD COUNTIES. 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 8067451290. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3416 10162 3406 10128 3388 10171 3401 10186 TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 211DEG 28KT 3401 10175 $$ 05
1 follow-up statement
122 WWUS54 KLUB 130015 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 715 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 TXC153-189-130030- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-121013T0030Z/ FLOYD TX-HALE TX- 715 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL HALE AND WEST CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 710 PM CDT...TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF HALE CENTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ADDITIONAL TORNADIC ACTIVITY CAN OCCUR AT ANY TIME. AT 705 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 8 MILES NORTH OF PETERSBURG. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN HALE AND WESTERN FLOYD COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST RESORT... EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT...OR ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK AT 8067451290. && LAT...LON 3403 10179 3416 10162 3406 10128 3390 10167 TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 211DEG 28KT 3407 10170 $$ 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 23 min |
| Oct 12, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 62 min |
| Oct 12, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 50 min |
| Oct 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Swisher | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 55 min |
| Oct 12, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Briscoe | 44 min |
| Oct 12, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 47 min |
| Oct 12, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum | 31 min |
| Oct 12, 11:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 36 min |
| Oct 12, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lubbock | 48 min |
| Oct 13, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Stonewall | 26 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.