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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2013, 1:53 PM CDT for Floyd County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 22 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
- May 23, 2013, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2013, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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 23, 2:22 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S Cedar Hill, TX | BRIEF TOUCHDOWN |
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 23, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
001 WFUS54 KLUB 231853 TORLUB TXC153-345-231915- /O.NEW.KLUB.TO.W.0002.130523T1853Z-130523T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 153 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. WESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 150 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLOYDADA...MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FLOMOT AND CEDAR HILL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3428 10100 3406 10091 3402 10121 3420 10124 TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 255DEG 4KT 3413 10116 $$ FB/MCZ
1 follow-up statement
690 WWUS54 KLUB 231905 SVSLUB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 205 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 TXC153-345-231915- /O.CON.KLUB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130523T1915Z/ FLOYD TX-MOTLEY TX- 205 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MOTLEY AND EAST CENTRAL FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM CDT... AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CEDAR HILL...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLOYDADA...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FLOMOT AND RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN FLOYD AND WESTERN MOTLEY COUNTIES. EARLIER THIS STORM PRODUCED A BRIEF TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLOYDADA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3428 10100 3406 10091 3402 10121 3420 10124 TIME...MOT...LOC 1903Z 255DEG 4KT 3413 10115 $$ FB/MCZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| May 23, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 25 min |
| May 23, 2:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 107 min |
| May 23, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| May 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 32 min |
| May 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 50 min |
| May 23, 3:44 PM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Hale, Lubbock | 72 min |
| May 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 51 min |
| May 23, 4:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Dickens, King | 110 min |
| May 23, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 26 min |
| May 23, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Motley | 47 min |
| May 23, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 37 min |
| May 23, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 32 min |
| May 23, 4:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 106 min |
| May 23, 4:56 PM CDT | Dust Storm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn | 64 min |
| May 23, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 38 min |
| May 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent | 47 min |
| May 23, 5:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 104 min |
| May 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 60 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.