Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

May 27, 1987, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)

Expired

May 27, 1987, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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TXC101-269-272245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
255 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ...SOUTHERN COTTLE...KING
 
AT 245 PM LUBBOCK RADAR WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING TO MOVE INTO WESTERN KING
COUNTY...AND THEN NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH INTO SOUTHERN COTTLE COUNTY.
THE KING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY 83 NORTH OF
GUTHRIE WAS CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVERTHE ROAD IN SEVERAL PLACES.
 
THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF UP TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE LAST
24 HOURS IN NORTHERN KING COUNTY AROUND DUMONT.
 
 
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT' IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

In the hours before

WEST TEXAS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1250 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987

...STRONG POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN TODAY PANHANDLE AND
   SOUTH PLAINS...

CONDITIONS REMAIN HIGHLY FAVORABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS. A WEAK DISTURBANCE
PASSING THROUGH THE EASTERN PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON WAS CAUSING DRIER AIR TO SPREAD ACROSS WESTERN COUNTIES OF
THE SOUTH PLAINS. AFTERNOON HEATING TODAY WILL BE MUCH GREATER THROUGH
WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS THAN THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH
PLAINS AND PANHANDLE.

THUS...THE ZONE SEPERATING WARM AND DRY AIR FROM THE COOLER MOIST AIR--
THE DRY LINE--IS EXPECTED TO BE ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH
PLAINS PLAINS AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLE BY LATE AFTERNOON.
THIS IS SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST OF WHERE IT WAS YESTERDAY. STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS OFTEN ERUPT NEAR THIS ZONE.

THE STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING TODAY IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN RAPID
THUNDERSTORM GROWTH FROM THE WESTERN PANHANDLE THROUGH THE CENTRAL
SOUTH PLAINS AND INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN
A THREAT DUE TO HIGHLY FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS.

RESIDENTS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO PAY ATTENTION TO DEVELOPING WEATHER
CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. KEEP UP ON THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION BY TUNING IN TO COMMERICAL RADIO...TELEVISION OR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1987Every flash flood warning in 1987

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.