Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1988, 4:44 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1988, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1988, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lynn County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLBB 102144
FFWLBB
TXC305-102345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
444 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...LYNN
AT 435 PM THE LYNN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WATER COVERED
PORTIONS OF U.S. 380 AND FM 2332 IN LYNN COUNTY. FLOODING WAS ALSO
REPORTED IN THE COMMUMUTIES OF GRASSLAND AND DRAW...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN CONTINUED FALLING IN THOSE COMMUNITIES.
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.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1255 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 1988 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR YOUKUM COUNTY UNTIL 145 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR TERRY COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND THE PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 5 PM CDT. COUNTIES ON THE SOUTH PLAINS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE BAILEY...COCHRAN...YOAKUM...LAMB...HOCKLEY...TERRY ...HALE...LUBBOCK...LYNN...FLOYD...CROSBY AND GARZA... AT 1252 PM CDT LUBBOCK RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL...COVERING THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. REPORTS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL INDICATE WATER REMAINS OVER ROADS IN SOME AREAS OF YOAKUM AND TERRY COUNTIES. < AT 1252 PM CDT THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER HALE AND FLOYD COUNTIES. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS DRIFTING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 5 MPH. DUE TO LIGHT STEERING WINDS AND THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS... ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY OVER PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY. PREVIOUS HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WATCH AREA HAS CAUSED SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS. CONSEQUENTLY ANY ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF AND FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS IN THE INDICATED AREA. CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS AND KEEP INFORMED. BE READY FOR QpUICK ACTION IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION...OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR PERIODIC STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 10:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Terry | 118 min |
| Jul 10, 11:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 12:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Terry | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988
Sources
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.