Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 1992, 4:23 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1992, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hale County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 983 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 162122 FFWLBB TXC189-170030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 423 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN HALE COUNTY AT 420 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF HALE COUNTY. SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING OF BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES IN THE HALE CENTER AREA. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. I5F FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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 16, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ007>012-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 315 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS... AT 310 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER HALE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH OF ABERNATHY NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF ABERNATHY. AT 300 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED PEA SIZE HALE SOUTH OF HALE CENTER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
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, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd | 3 hr |
| 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, 4:30 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 |
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.