Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1992, 9:21 PM CDT for Hale County, Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1992, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, TX, Lamb County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 8, 3:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 327 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 325 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICTAED NO PRECIPITATION OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHWEST TEXAS. STORM MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10-20 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATHENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISON STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lamb | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd | 115 min |
| Jun 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 44 min |
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.