Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 1997, 1:21 PM CDT for Swisher 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
- Apr 25, 1997, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1997, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Swisher County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 251827 RRA FFWLBB TXC437-252100- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 121 PM CDT FRI APR 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SWISHER COUNTY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHWESTWARD FROM FLOYD AND BRISCOE COUNTIES INTO EASTERN SWISHER COUNTY. RADAR IS ESTIMATING THAT AT LEAST 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 12 PM AND 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON...FROM SOUTHWESTERN BRISCOE COUNTY EXTENDING WEST INTO EASTERN SWISHER COUNTY. THIS AREA RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN LAST NIGHT AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL PRODUCE FLOODING. THE SWISHER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT A SECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY 86 ALONG THE COUNTY LINE EAST OF TULIA IS COVERED WITH WATER. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. JJ &
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, Apr 25, 11:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ021>044-252000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1100 AM CDT FRI APR 25 1997 NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...OR THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. WITH COLD AIR AT THE SURFACE...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY STABLE OVER THE REGION. THIS WILL PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. HOWEVER... WITH MOISTURE MOVING OVER THE COLDER AIR AT THE SURFACE...OCCASIONAL LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. GPS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 11:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ021>044-252000- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1100 AM CDT FRI APR 25 1997 NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...OR THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. WITH COLD AIR AT THE SURFACE...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY STABLE OVER THE REGION. THIS WILL PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. HOWEVER... WITH MOISTURE MOVLING OVER THE COLDER AIR AT THE SURFACE...OCCASIONAL LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. GPS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd | 3 hr |
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.