9 tornado, 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 Jun 12, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 320 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 .SHORT TERM... NEGATIVE TILTED TROUGH CONTINUES TO LIFT NE INTO HIGH PLAINS THIS AFTN. SFC FNT AT 19Z EXTENDS FROM KAMA TO KLBB. STRONG BAROCLINIC ZN UNDERNEATH CONVECTIVE CANOPY EXTENDING FM KAMA SE TO N OF MEMPHIS. TEMPS OFF CAPROCK HAVE WARMED INTO MID 80S WITH MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY AHEAD OF APPROACHING BOUNDARY ACROSS PNHDL AND EAST OF ADVANCING DRYLINE/PAC FNT. HIGHEST POPS THIS EVE OFF CAPROCK WITH NE CORNER STILL PRIMED FOR MOST SVR WEATHER AND TORNADOES. WEAK DOWNSLOPE WINDS AND DRIER AIRMASS ON MON SHOULD HELP US WARM BACK INTO THE 90S. .LONG TERM... CDFNT MOVES THROUGH SOUTH PLAINS MON NIGHT AS SFC RIDGE BUILDS IN BEHIND EXITING TROUGH. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE TEMPERED SOME AS A RESULT FOR TUE. MID LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD INTO THE AREA AS WELL ON TUE BUT STILL COULD SEE SOME MCS DEVELOPMENT NEARBY IN KS/OK ON BACK SIDE OF TROUGH BOTH LATE TUE AND AGAIN WED NIGHT. LEFT POPS OUT OF FCST FOR NOW BUT WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH THAT POTENTIAL AS WE GET CLOSER. OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ALSO SHIFTS W TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NM ON WED WITH STEERING FLOW POSSIBLY BRINGING SOME STORMS NEAR WRN ZNS LATE IN THE DAY. RIDGE AXIS CONTINUES BUILDING EAST THROUGH LATE WEEK WITH AXIS PRETTY MUCH OVHD BY SAT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FRIONA 58 87 59 85 / 0 10 10 10 TULIA 60 85 62 83 / 10 10 10 10 PLAINVIEW 63 87 63 85 / 10 10 10 10 LEVELLAND 63 91 63 88 / 0 10 10 10 LUBBOCK 65 92 64 89 / 10 10 10 10 BROWNFIELD 65 94 64 91 / 0 10 10 10 CHILDRESS 68 93 66 87 / 50 10 10 10 SPUR 67 94 66 91 / 20 10 10 10 ASPERMONT 69 97 69 92 / 40 10 10 10 && .LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 14/24
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1215 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 TXZ024>026-030>032-036>038-041>044-130300- BRISCOE-CHILDRESS-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-FLOYD-GARZA-HALL-KENT-KING- LYNN-MOTLEY-STONEWALL- 1215 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 464 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BRISCOE...CHILDRESS...COTTLE...CROSBY...DICKENS...FLOYD...GARZA... HALL...KENT...KING...LYNN...MOTLEY...AND STONEWALL. SOME COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... SILVERTON...MEMPHIS...CHILDRESS...PADUCAH...MATADOR...FLOYDADA... CROSBYTON...DICKENS...GUTHRIE...ASPERMONT...JAYTON...POST...AND TAHOKA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FOX
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
506 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 2005
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0454 PM HAIL WHITE RIVER LAKE 33.48N 101.10W
06/12/2005 1.00 INCH CROSBY TX PUBLIC
REPORTED AT WHITE RIVER LAKE MARINA
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MRCThe Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:09 UTC.
9 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Storm Chaser report of a tornado which persisted on the ground for three minutes.
Public report of a tornado in open country.
The National Weather Service in Lubbock, TX conducted a damage survey in Kent County, approximately 8 miles to the northeast of Clairemont. In collaboration with the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, CO and Texas Tech University meteorologists assessing the tornadoes across the county with Doppler-On-Wheels (DOW) data, a better understanding of the wind fields and tornado timing was achieved. The area of assessed damage was bounded by a triangle comprised of FM2320 to the south, FM1228 to the east, and CR112 to the west. There was a damage path characterized by tree damage across the zone. The path of the damage was oriented from a northeast-east to southwest-west direction. DOW data confirmed the large, wedge tornado initially propagated to the east and northeast, became nearly stationary, then rotate southward around the west side of the parent mesocyclone. The tornado moved to the southwest, then south and crossed FM1228 from the north/northeast to the south/southwest. The path of the tornado was between 0.6 to 0.7 miles wide. In assessing the damage, a circulatory patter was evident in a wheat field owned by a private farmer, with all of the wheat laying down to the south. Along this quadrant of the circulation, large farm equipment (tractors and cotton trailers) were tossed and mangled. An 80,000 lb box car was shaken by the tornado and the associated strong wind but was not moved from its location, however the contents inside were disturbed. The farm vehicles were tossed briefly a few times as there were scar marks and impact marks in the field as the equipment was blown to the south. The front-end of one tractor was snapped off after the second impact with the ground, as the vehicle was likely too heavy to remain airborne and was dragged and rolled by the tornadic wind and circulation. On the east side of the circulation, there were tree branches not grown in that immediate area that were stripped clean of bark. A cotton trailer (lighter than the other equipment) was lifted from its original location and was tossed to the north and mangled upon impact. The equipment was tossed approximately 3/10 of a mile within the circulation. It was evident from the damage pattern and debris, the circulation was multi-vortex in nature. The DOW measured wind speeds ranging from 45, 65 and 90 meters per second at various stages of the tornado life cycle at heights between 3 and 50 meters above ground level.
University of Oklahoma Graduate Student and Storm Chasers report of a tornado.
University of Oklahoma Graduate Student and Storm Chasers report of a tornado.
NWS meteorologist report of a tornado on the ground for around three minutes.
University of Oklahoma Graduate Student and Storm Chasers report of a tornado.
NWS meteorologist and University of Oklahoma Graduate Student and Storm Chasers report of a tornado.
NWS meteorologist and University of Oklahoma Graduate Student and Storm Chasers report of a tornado.
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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: 5465828, 5465829, 5465836, 5465833, 5465834, 5465830, 5465835, 5465831, 5465832.