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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 23, 19925 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1992, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Lubbock County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBTerry3 hr

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.