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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 10, 1988Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1988, 9:32 AM CDT for Hockley County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1988, 9:32 AM CDT (14:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1988, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hockley 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 389 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1988-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 8:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 8:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBYoakum3 hr
Jul 10, 10:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBTerry118 min
Jul 10, 11:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBYoakum2 hr
Jul 10, 12:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBTerry2 hr
Jul 10, 4:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLynn2 hr
Jul 10, 5:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLubbock3 hr

Nearby

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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.