Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1990, 8:58 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1990, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamb 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 170200 FFWLBB TXC279-170300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 858 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LAMB COUNTY LOCAL UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER THIS EVENING IN THE OLTON AREA...COUPLED WITH A NEW SERIES OF HEAVY RAIN-PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEASTERN LAMB COUNTY HAS PROMPTED THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO WILL LIKELY CAUSE WATER TO OVERSPREAD STREETS AND HIGHWAYS... ESPECIALLY THOSE PRONE TO FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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, Aug 16, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-162115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 308 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOPE OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN MOTLEY COUNTY JUST NORTH OF MATADOR. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE ALSO IN THE COUNTIES OF LAMB...BAILEY AND DICKENS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR UPDATES ON THIS THUNDERSTORM SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 404 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAI AT 4 PM CDT. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN IDALOU AND RALLS NEAR THE EASTERN LUBBOCK AND WESTERN CROSBY COUNTY BORDER. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN LAMB COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF OLTON. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORM^ATION ON THIS THUNDERSTORM SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 5:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 500 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS AT 455 PM. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE IN WESTERN COUNTIES...CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN LAMB AND NORTHERN HOCKLEY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTHWARD INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTHWARD INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTWARD INTO THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KEEP TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS PRECIPITATION EPISODE.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-170030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 600 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 AT 555 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO BE SCATTERED OVER PARTS OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL RATES EXTENDED NORTH NORTHEASTWARD FROM SOUTHERN LAMB COUNTY TO NORTHWESTERN HALE COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND LOCAL HEAVY RAIN WITH ITS RESULTANT FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTHWARD INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTHWARD INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTWARD INTO THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. KEEP TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS PRECIPITATION EPISODE.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 7:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 700 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990 AT 655 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL RATES WERE IN NORTHWESTERN HALE COUNTY JUST EAST OF OLTON...ALONG THE NEW MEXICO BORDER JUST WEST OF MULESHOE...IN YOAKUM JUST NORTH OF PLAINS AND IN TERRY COUNTY NEAR BROWNFIELD. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND LOCAL HEAVY RAIN WITH ITS RESULTANT FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTHWARD INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTHWARD INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN MAND WESTWARD INTO THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT CONCERNING THIS PRECIPITATION EPISODE UNLESS CONDITIONS CHANGE.
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.