Texas, 2001Tornado 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.
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- 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 SPOTTERTornado, 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.
- 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.
- Flash Flood in Florida, November 14, 2001$500,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flood in Texas, November 14 to 15, 2001$80,000 · 1 event
- Flooding in Washington, November 14, 2001$40,000 · 5 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, November 14, 2001$35,000 · 3 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, November 14, 20011.75 in hail · 19 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, November 14 to 15, 20012 events
- Flood in Florida, November 14, 20011 event
- Flood in Florida, November 14, 20011 event
- Hail in Texas, November 14, 20011 in hail · 1 event
- Hail in Texas, November 14, 20011 in hail · 1 event
- Hail in Texas, November 14, 20011.75 in hail · 1 event
- High Wind in Montana, November 14, 20011 event
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.