Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 11:14 AM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1994, 11:14 AM CDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1994, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lynn County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 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
- 1254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 111615 FFWLBB TXC305-111815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1114 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LYNN COUNTY AT 1113 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF ODONNEL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 11, 5:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ027>043-111255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 557 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KENT COUNTY EXPIRED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KENT COUNTY HAS WEAKENED SINCE 5 AM...AND WAS MOVING EAST INTO KING AND STONEWALL COUNTIES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KENT COUNTY EXPIRED AT 530 AM. AT 545 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAD MOVED EAST OF THE CAPROCK AND WERE AFFECTING MOTLEY... COTTLE...DICKENS...AND KING COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL SINCE 430 AM WAS OVER CENTRAL DICKENS COUNTY...JUST NORTHEAST OF DICKENS. SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS LIKELY OCCURRED OVER PORTIONS OF KENT...DICKENS...NORTHWEST KING...AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MOTLEY AND COTTLE COUNTIES. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THIS PRECIPITATION MAY AFFECT THE SOUTH PLAINS LATER THIS MORNING...THEREFORE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED IN MANY AREAS FROM RAINFALL OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. ALLOW EXTRA TRAVEL TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION THIS MORNING DUE TO LOCALLY FLOODED ROADWAYS. DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 63 min |
| May 11, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 37 min |
| May 11, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 60 min |
| May 11, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 68 min |
| May 11, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 22 min |
| May 11, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 68 min |
| May 11, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 28 min |
| May 11, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 59 min |
| May 11, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 35 min |
| May 11, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 47 min |
| May 11, 9:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Terry | 3 hr |
| May 11, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 49 min |
| May 11, 10:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 2 hr |
| May 11, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 2 hr |
| May 11, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 2 hr |
| May 11, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 40 min |
| May 11, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 3 hr |
| May 11, 1:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 3 hr |
| May 11, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens | 3 hr |
| May 11, 2:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 3 hr |
| May 11, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby | 2 hr |
| May 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lynn | 2 hr |
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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.