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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 27, 1997Briscoe County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 27, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Briscoe County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1997-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1283 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe45 min
Jun 28, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Lamb62 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.