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Local Weather History For June 12th...
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2005: A localized outbreak of tornadoes struck Kent, Crosby and Dickens County late this day as an extremely unstable and
strongly-sheared airmass took aim on the region. Although one strong, but brief thunderstorm developed east of Lubbock in Crosby County early this afternoon, the significant severe weather event waited until mid-afternoon. By this time, an upper-level disturbance, working in tandem with a tightening dryline across the eastern South Plains, promoted the development of a broken line of north-northeast to south-southwest oriented storms near the Caprock Escarpment from Floyd and Motley Counties south to Crosby and Garza Counties. Given the extreme instability and strong wind shear in place, these storms immediately began rotating followed by large hail and tornadoes. The first two tornadoes were rated F0 and belonged to a supercell located over eastern Crosby and northwest Dickens Counties. Then, a supercell farther south (northwest Kent County), morphed into a storm of far greater concern. Thankfully, this cyclic tornadic supercell remained over mostly rural areas of Kent County where numerous Skywarn spotters, research teams, media crews, and storm chasers witnessed at least eight tornadoes, some simultaneously. In similar fashion to a massive wedge tornado east of Petersburg just three days prior, one of these tornadoes also attained a large girth and soon began to deviate north from its easterly course, before becoming nearly stationary and then moving southward around the west side of its parent mesocyclone. This tornado at one point moved southwest according to Doppler On Wheels (DOW) mobile radar researchers. This wedge tornado was up to 3/4 of a mile wide and mangled several large farm implements earning an F2 rating. DOW data measured wind speeds just over 200 mph at one point at various heights above the ground. |
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