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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 27, 1996Terry County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1996, 6:54 PM CDT for Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1996, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Terry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 658 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
658 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 272354
FFWLBB
TXC445-280250-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
654 PM CDT THU JUN 27 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE 
FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...TERRY COUNTY

ONE TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN WESTERN TERRY COUNTY BETWEEN
330 PM AND 630 PM.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN WESTERN TERRY COUNTY
AT 650 PM...WITH MUCH MORE RAIN APPROACHING TERRY COUNTY FROM THE
SOUTHWEST.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT0 TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
LV/PV

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.