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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 5, 1997Dickens County, King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 1997, 6:27 AM CDT for Dickens County, King 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
Jul 5, 1997, 6:27 AM CDT (11:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dickens County, TX, King County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 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 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 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 051127
FFWLBB
TXC125-269-051400-

BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
627 AM CDT SAT JUL 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...EASTERN DICKENS COUNTY
   ...KING COUNTY
 
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS KING AND EASTERN DICKENS
COUNTIES WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.  NWS DOPPLER
RADAR SHOWS UP TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN 10 MILES EAST
NORTHEAST OF DICKESN AND NEAR 3 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR GUTHRIE.

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey63 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.