Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1992, 8:46 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lynn County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
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 13, 4:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 423 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREAY STARTED FORMING OVER THE WESTERN SOUTPLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. DURING THE DAY...VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WORKEITS WAY ACROOS WEST TEXAS. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND THE FORMATION OF A DRY LINE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO THE THUNDERSTORMS IN DEVELOPING QUICKLY...SOME BECOMING SEVERE WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. AT 420 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ONE OF THE STORMS WAS STRONG...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LOCATED IN COCHRAN COUNTY ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF LEHMAN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS CAN EXPECT CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...AND CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER C!ONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SPOTTED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-132230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 429 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREAY STARTED FORMING OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. DURING THE DAY...VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WORKED ITS WAY ACROOS WEST TEXAS. THIS IN COMBINATION WITH AFTERNOON HEATING AND THE FORMATION OF A DRY LINE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO AID THE THUNDERSTORMS IN DEVELOPING QUICKLY...SOME BECOMING SEVERE WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. AT 420 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. ONE OF THE STORMS WAS STRONG...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LOCATED IN COCHRAN COUNTY ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF LEHMAN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS CAN EXPECT CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...AND CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPMENT. PERSONS SHOULHD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SPOTTED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Terry | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn | 69 min |
| Jun 13, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 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.