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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 2012Cottle County, King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2012, 5:51 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 2 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, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5:59 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Paducah, TX	REPORTS OF FULL TREES UPROOTED...SHEET METAL FLYING THROUGH AIR...POSSIBLE COMBINATION STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND GUSTNADO
May 30, 5:59 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 90	Paducah, TX	ESTIMATED 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.

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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 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.

836 
WFUS54 KLUB 302251
TORLUB
TXC101-269-302315-
/O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0008.120530T2251Z-120530T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.
  SOUTHEASTERN COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS.

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 548 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A RAPIDLY
  ROTATING WALL CLOUD CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE WALL CLOUD
  WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF HACKBERRY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
  PADUCAH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PADUCAH...
  HACKBERRY 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 3375 10018 3401 10032 3414 10010 3407 10004
      3384 10004 3384 10000 3383 9999 3376 9999
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 323DEG 25KT 3401 10012

$$

MEADOWS

1 follow-up statement

529 
WWUS54 KLUB 302303
SVSLUB

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

TXC101-269-302315-
/O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120530T2315Z/
KING TX-COTTLE TX-
603 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN COTTLE AND
NORTHEASTERN KING COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

AT 559 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HACKBERRY...OR 13 MILES EAST
OF PADUCAH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

IN ADDITION...AT 600 PM 80 TO 90 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT PADUCAH 
WITH THIS STORM. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN COTTLE AND NORTHEASTERN
  KING COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 3376 10017 3402 10027 3414 10010 3407 10004
      3384 10004 3384 10000 3383 9999 3376 9999
TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 323DEG 25KT 3395 10006

$$

MEADOWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	28 min
May 30, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	54 min
May 30, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	63 min
May 30, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	37 min
May 30, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	66 min
May 30, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	64 min
May 30, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Hall, Motley	29 min
May 30, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall	25 min
May 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall	25 min
May 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	65 min
May 30, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	33 min
May 30, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Cottle, Motley	32 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.