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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 1996, 5:49 AM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1996, 5:49 AM CDT (10:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County King County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 18, 3:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 46 min |
| Sep 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 min |
| Sep 17, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 46 min |
| Sep 17, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 50 min |
| Sep 17, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 11:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | King | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 47 min |
| Sep 18, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 49 min |
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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.