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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 9, 1996Castro County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1996, 6:49 PM CDT for Castro 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
Jul 9, 1996, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Castro County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 092349
FFWLBB
TXC069-100145-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
649 PM CDT TUE JUL 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

   ...CASTRO COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM...LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF CASTRO
COUNTY.  ALTHOUGH RAINFALL SHOULD SLOWLY TAPER OFF THROUGH 8
PM...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE CONTINUED FLOODING.
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN DIMMITT REPORTED FLOODING NEAR THE
INTERSECTIONS OF FM-1055 AND FM-2392 ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF DIMMITT.
ADDITIONAL FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 86 AT FM-1055 WEST OF
DIMMITT.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.