Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1993, 11:16 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1993, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1993, 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, 4.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 010423 FFWLBB TXC303-010715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1116 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LUBBOCK COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1110 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD STALLED OVER LUBBOCK COUNTY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF LUBBOCK HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. IN ADDITION RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED IN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK. DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF RAIN ALREADY RECEIVED THIS EVENING AND THE FACT THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE SHOWING LITTLE IF ANY MOVEMENT A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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 30, 5:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ007>012-310000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 556 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER PARTS OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS... AT 555 PM LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL RATES WERE ALONG A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF CROSBYTON SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH LUBBOCK COUNTY ON TO NEAR BROWNFIELD. THIS AREA WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MPH. AT 550 PM SEVERAL REPORTS WERE RECEIVED OF GUSTY WIND AND OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL OVER PARTS OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK AS ONE OF THE HEAVIER STORMS MOVED THROUGH THE CITY. PERSONS ON THE SOUTH PLAINS SHOULD BE ALERT TTO THE POSSIBILITY FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. &
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ007>012-310055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 650 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS... AT 640 PM CDT...LUBBOCK RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF CROSBYTON...BETWEEN SHALLOWATER AND LEVELLAND...AND JUST EAST OF BROWNFIELD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED OVER NORTHWESTERN LUBBOCK COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN HALE COUNTY AND OVER WESTERN LYNN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.