Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1995, 2:09 PM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cottle County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 041909 FFWLBB TXC101-042115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 209 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...COTTLE COUNTY AT 208 PM...LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED NEW THUNDERSTRORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF PADUCAH JUST WEST OF THE COMMUNITY OF CHALK IN COTTLE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS AREA HAS RECEIVED IN EXCESS OF 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH EARLIER STORMS ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES. OTHER STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF COTTLE COUNTY. 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.
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 4, 11:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ027>043-041915- SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ027>043-041915- SOUTH PLAINS/LOW ROLLING PLAINS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1111 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS MORNING. VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL OVER THE AREA AND WILL PERSIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM THE WEST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE A HIGH POTENTIAL OF QUICKLY BECOMING SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 11:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 11:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 13 min |
| Jun 4, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 69 min |
| Jun 4, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 52 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.