He says the NWS takes those decisions seriously when it’s time to issue a tornado warning. According to Weaver, this was only the sixth tornado warning for the City of Lubbock in the last 23 years.

During the height of the activity, nearly 5 million residents were underneath Tornado Watches, which included the city of Lubbock, Texas, which was hit hard by tornadic supercells on Thursday.

The final three tornadoes produced by this supercell were observed as the storm crossed from eastern Hockley County into western Lubbock County. The first tornado developed approximately 3 miles ...

The seventh tornado, an EF-2, formed immediately after that one, with an estimated peak wind at 130 miles per hour. The last, an EF-1, started northwest of Reese Center, ending up just west of Inler ...