Texas, 2001

Tornado in Texas, November 14, 2001

November 14, 2001 · NWS LUB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 14, 8:45 AM CST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 8:45 AM CST, 32 minutes before
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
845 AM CST TUE NOV 14 2001

UPDATE...
SMALL MCS IN STRONGLY DIVERGENT FLOW ALOFT MOVING NORTH INTO THE
SOUTHERN COUNTIES AT THIS TIME. AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN HAS DEVELOPED
OVER THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. GIVEN WIDESPREAD THUNDER IN THIS
REGION, UPDATED SOUTHERN ZONES TO HIGHLIGHT THIS MORNING FOR RAIN
POTENTIAL AND MENTION SOME HEAVY RAIN.

.LUB...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 14, 7:37 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK, TX
737 AM CST WED NOV 14 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0920 AM    5 W REESE VILLAGE         TX   TORNADO
11/14/01   LUBBOCK                        BRIEF TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lubbock

When
November 14, 9:17 AM CST to 9:23 AM CST
Where
Lubbock County, 5 mi W of Reese Vlg
Rating
F0
Path length
0.1 mi
Path width
20 yd
Reported by
STORM CHASER
Coordinates
33.600, -102.100

A storm chaser reported a weak, stationary tornado over open country.

What these are

Tornado
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5272163.