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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 2012Childress County, Cottle County, Hall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2012, 5:35 PM CDT for Childress County, Cottle County, Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. 5 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, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Hall County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 5:40 PM CDTHAIL 2.757 Ne Paducah, TX
May 30, 5:49 PM CDTHAIL 4.56 Ne Paducah, TX
May 30, 5:58 PM CDTHAIL 1.7510 S Childress, TX
May 30, 5:59 PM CDTTSTM WND DMGPaducah, TXREPORTS OF FULL TREES UPROOTED...SHEET METAL FLYING THROUGH AIR...POSSIBLE COMBINATION STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND GUSTNADO
May 30, 5:59 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 90Paducah, TXESTIMATED 80-90 MPH WINDS IN PADUCAH. POWER IS OUT AND SEVERAL REPORTS OF TREES DOWN.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 30, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2012-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 256 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-331 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
256 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

792 
WFUS54 KLUB 302235
TORLUB
TXC075-101-191-302300-
/O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0007.120530T2235Z-120530T2300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
  SOUTHWESTERN CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS.
  NORTHERN COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 532 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 TELL...OR ABOUT 11   
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHILDRESS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER 
  STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST  
  OF PADUCAH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE TELL...         
  SWEARINGEN...PADUCAH...TELL AND CEE VEE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8067451290.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3396 10037 3416 10049 3439 10052 3446 10037
      3411 10004 3404 10004
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 328DEG 23KT 3434 10041

$$

MEADOWS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall28 min
May 30, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley54 min
May 30, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall63 min
May 30, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBChildress, Hall37 min
May 30, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall66 min
May 30, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle64 min
May 30, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Hall, Motley29 min
May 30, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall25 min
May 30, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCottle, King24 min
May 30, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle65 min
May 30, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall, Motley33 min
May 30, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCottle, Motley32 min

Nearby

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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.