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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 27, 1992Hale County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT for Hale County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1992, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1992, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hale County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-28Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 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
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 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.

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, May 27, 5:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-272325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
523 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE SOUTH PLAINS EXCEPT
   MOTLEY...COTTLE AND KING COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 520 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST
BAILEY COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM JUST DEVELOPED OVER HOCKLEY
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. STORMS NOW
LOCATED IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO ARE MOVING EASTWARD AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND
SHOULD ENTER NORTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY BY 630 PM CDT.

PERSONS ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBLITY
OF THUNDERSTORM FORMATION IN THEIR AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR
UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 27, 6:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ007-008-009-010-011-012-280025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
625 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE SOUTH PLAINS EXCEPT
   MOTLEY...COTTLE AND KING COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

AT 620 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN LAMB COUNTY NEAR THE
CASTRO-LAMB COUNTY LINE. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE
COMMUNITY OF EARTH IN LAMB COUNTY AT 615 PM CDT. THESE STORMS SHOULD
MOVE INTO HALE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 1/2 HOUR AND THEN CONTINUE
MOVING EASTWARD AND REACH THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW AROUND 730 PM CDT.

ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST DEVELOPED IN YOAKUM COUNTY JUST TO
THE SOUTHWEST OF PLAINS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20
MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR
UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM SITUATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHale, Lamb60 min
May 27, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock62 min
May 27, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lamb, Lubbock68 min
May 27, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby63 min
May 27, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn67 min
May 27, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza55 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.