3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Aug 30, 1:10 PM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 210 PM CDT FRI AUG 30 2002 WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND PROFILER DATA SHOW SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS WHILE THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS. THE CENTER OF THE 50H HIGH WAS SOUTH OF EL PASO WITH MODEST WESTERLY MID LEVEL FLOW ACROSS CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SHOWN ON TUCUMCARI PROFILER. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A TROUGH AXIS LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO. MSAS SHOWS INSTABILITY/SURFACE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AXIS ALONG THE TEXAS NEW MEXICO BORDER. EXPECT STORMS TO DEVELOP IN THIS AXIS AND MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING AS MID LEVEL STEERING FLOW BECOMES NORTHWEST. LOWER THETA-E AIR LOCATED OVER NORTH TEXAS EVIDENT BY DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 50S WILL BE ADVECTED INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. SO STORMS MAY NOT LAST VERY LONG INTO THE EVENING HOURS. INSTABILITY AXIS WILL REMAIN OVER THE NORTHWEST ZONES SATURDAY. WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...SLIM POSSIBILITY FOR STORMS TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO THE AREA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING TIME PERIOD. UPPER RIDGE AXIS BUILDS INTO THE REGION SUNDAY AND PERSISTS OVER THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH DIGS INTO THE WESTERN UNITED STATES TUESDAY. 00Z MRF SHOWS THE TROUGH LIFTING INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS BY FRIDAY WITH THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT DIVING INTO THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING. 12Z ECMWF SHOWS DEEPER TROUGH STILL ALONG THE WEST COAST 12Z THURSDAY. WILL KEEP DAY 7 FORECAST DRY AND WARM AT THIS POINT AND WAIT TO SEE WHICH MODEL HAS MORE RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY. FRIONA 62/88/63/91 311- TULIA 63/89/64/92 311- LUBBOCK 65/90/66/93 2--- BROWNFIELD 64/91/65/94 2--- CHILDRESS 66/93/68/95 1--- ASPERMONT 68/95/70/97 1--- .LUB...NONE. TINSLEY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The West Texas Mesonet station northeast of town recorded thunderstorm wind gusts exceeding 60 mph for at least 15 minutes with the highest gusts measuring 67 mph.
A KVII-TV School Net site measured a 59 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Eight cars of a train were derailed due to high thunderstorm winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2002
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: 5314218, 5314216, 5314219, 5314217.