Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 15, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1992, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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, Apr 15, 8:20 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-152230- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 818 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FLOYD AND HALE COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM CDT THURSDAY... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 815 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...OVER MUCH OF FLOYD COUNTY AND OVER PORTIONS OF HALE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR LOCKNEY TO NEAR FLOYDADA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR HALE CENTER IN HALE COUNTY. < RADAR INDICATED LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN FLOYD COUNTY AND IN EASTERN PORTIONS OF HALE COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 930 PM CDT. STRONG WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 68 min |
| Apr 15, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 4:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 64 min |
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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.