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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lubbock, TX

September 18, 1996King County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2692 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens46 min
Sep 17, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKing64 min
Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens47 min
Sep 17, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBDickens47 min
Sep 17, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, King50 min
Sep 17, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKing46 min
Sep 17, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing50 min
Sep 17, 11:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKing3 hr
Sep 18, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum66 min
Sep 18, 2:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKing3 hr
Sep 18, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn64 min
Sep 18, 11:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKing3 hr
Sep 18, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza47 min
Sep 18, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBGarza49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.