F0 tornado, Crosbyton, Texas, June 12, 2005

1. F040 to 72 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. F173 to 112 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. F2113 to 157 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. F3158 to 206 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. F4207 to 260 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. F5261 to 318 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

F0

Date

June 12, 2005

Touchdown

5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)

Path length

0.5 miles (0.8 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Crosby County

Touchdown point

33.670, -101.080

Lift-off point

33.670, -101.080

Record number

1022

Storm Chaser report of a tornado which persisted on the ground for three minutes.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 12, 3:20 PM CDT, 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

In the hours before

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

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

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

&&

MRC

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Lubbock International Airport (LBB), 69 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:09 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2005 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

13 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.