Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1992, 11:05 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1992, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1992, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lubbock County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 120412 FFWLBB TXC303-120715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1105 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LUBBOCK COUNTY AT 1100 PM CDT REPORTS FROM SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LUBBOCK COUNTY...AND FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES OR MORE DURING THE EVENING. RADAR AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS HAVE ALSO INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE EVENING. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT THAT PORTIONS OF HIGHWAYS 1585 AND 179 IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY ARE UNDERWATER. REPORTS FROM THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK INDICATE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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, Jun 11, 5:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-112330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 533 PM CDT THU JUN 11 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ON THE SOUTH PLAINS ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH: BAILEY...LAMB...HALE...FLOYD... MOTLEY...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK...CROSBY...DICKENS... YOAKUM...TERRY...LYNN...GARZA AND KENT... AT 530 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST STORM ON THE SOUTH PLAINS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF BROWNFIELD IN EXTREME EASTERN TERRY COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR THE TEXAS-NEW MEXICO STATE LINE IN BAILEY AND COCHRAN COUNTIES. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITI0NS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE A^REAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ADDITIONAL STATMENTS WILL BE ISSUED PERIODICALLY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hale | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 67 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.