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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1990, 9:50 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1990, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 280252 FFWLBB TXC303-280445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 950 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LUBBOCK COUNTY AT 950 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING INTO THE CITY OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK REPORTS WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF MAJOR INTERSECTIONS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO LIMIT NON-EMERGENCY TRAVEL UNTIL THE HEAVY RAINS EXIT THE AREA AND FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDE. HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS CAUSED SATURATED CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID RUNOFF AND RENEWED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING A<REAS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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 27, 5:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ007>012-280130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
530 PM FRIDAY JULY 27 1990
AT 525 PM WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHEAST AND THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS. HEAVY
RAIN WAS REPORTED LUBBOCK...MOTLEY...AND CROSBY COUNTIES.
OVER THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF MORE THAN 1.3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LUBBOCK. WIDESPREAD STREET HAS
ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME CARS STALLED ON CITY STREETS.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE VERY STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
MOTORIST SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION AND AVOID AREAS WERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.
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ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-280315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 812 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LUBBOCK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 810 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND AREAL COVERAGE ACROSS LUBBOCK COUNTY REDUCING THE IMMEDIATE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. ELSEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 30 MILES WIDE CONTINUED FROM MATADOR SOUTHWEST ACROSS CROSBYTON TO JUST NORTHWEST OF POST. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN GARZA COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF POST. RAINFALL FROM SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORIST ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION AND AVOID AREAS WHERE WATERS COVERS THE ROADWAY. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE PANHANDLE ACROSS CLOVIS SOUTHWEST THROUGH EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THIS AREA WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST AND MAY EFFECT PARTS OF THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS LATER THIS EVENING. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ... STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 9:24 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-280330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 922 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 920 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SOUTHWARD ALONG THE TEXAS-NEW MEXICO STATE LINE. THE STRONGEST STORMS ON THE SOUTH PLAINS WERE LOCATED IN BAILEY COUNTY...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE LIKELY THERE FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGER STORMS IS THIS AREA WERE LOCATED OVER TERRY...LYNN..LUBBOCK AND CROSBY COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IN THIS AREA WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. FLOODING OFF STREETS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS AND ASSOCIATED HEAVY RAINFALL RATES. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
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.