Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 2:41 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1994, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1994, 5:45 PM 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 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 111941 FFWLBB TXC303-112245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 241 PM CDT WED MAY 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...LUBBOCK COUNTY ...SOME ROADS ARE UNDERWATER IN LUBBOCK COUNTY... AT 235 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS. PREVIOUS RAIN WHICH HAD FALLEN DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS HAS CAUSED STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF LUBBOCK COUNTY. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER LUBBOCK COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY OCCUR CAUSING ADDITIONAL FLOODING. RESIDENTS SHOULD AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVER THE ROAD...OR AVOID DRIVING IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR 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.
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 | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lynn | 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, 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.