Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT for Floyd County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 202238 FFWLBB TXC153-345-210045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 536 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN MOTLEY COUNTY VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE OCCURRED OVER SOUTHEAST FLOYD AND SOUTHWEST MOTLEY DURING THE PAST HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST VERY SLOWLY. 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 IBF 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, Jul 20, 5:20 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ027>043-202325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 520 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTH PLAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHEAST FLOYD AND NORTHEAST CROSBY COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF FLOYDADA TO JUST NORTHEAST OF CROSBYTON. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS NORTHERN TERRY AND NORTHWESTERN LYNN COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF NEW HOME TO SEVEN MILES NORTH OF BROWNFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF FLOYD COUNTY. FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG LOW-LYING AREAS NEAR FARM ROAD 28 AND OTHER ROADWAYS IN SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:21 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ027>043-202325- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 520 PM CDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND SOUTH PLAINS... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND THE SOUTH PLAINS THIS EVENING. AT 515 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHEAST FLOYD AND NORTHEAST CROSBY COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF FLOYDADA TO JUST NORTHEAST OF CROSBYTON. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS NORTHERN TERRY AND NORTHWESTERN LYNN COUNTIES FROM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF NEW HOME TO SEVEN MILES NORTH OF BROWNFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF FLOYD COUNTY. FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG LOW-LYING AREAS NEAR FARM ROAD 28 AND OTHE R ROADWAYS IN SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.