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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 14, 1997, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 8:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 110 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 191 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 142352 FFWLBB TXC263-150155- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 651 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...KENT COUNTY AT 650 PM...LUBBOCK RADAR SHOWED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL KENT COUNTY NEAR CLAIREMONT. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES HAD ALREADY FALLEN WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CLAIREMONT BY 650 PM. CONTINUED HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH 730 PM AND FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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, Jun 14, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ041-142035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 310 PM...55 MPH WINDS AND HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED WERE REPORTED BY A WEATHER SERVICE COOP-OBSERVER IN NORTHEAST LYNN COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ041-142035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 310 PM...55 MPH WINDS AND HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED WERE REPORTED BY A WEATHER SERVICE COOP-OBSERVER IN NORTHEAST LYNN COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:51 PM CDT, 3 hours before
TXZ033-142110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 351 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 350 PM...CHANNEL 11 TELEVISION STATION REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS FALLING IN WHITEFACE.
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ033-142110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 351 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 AT 350 PM...CHANNEL 11 TELEVISION STATION REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS FALLING IN WHITEFACE.(
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 60 min |
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.