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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1997, 5:36 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 114 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
- May 8, 1997, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- 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 22:35 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, 10.6 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 082238 FFWLBB TXC263-090030- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 536 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...KENT COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST KENT COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS THAT AREA AT 530 PM CDT. STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE DEVELOPING ACROSS THAT AREA...ADDING TO THE RAINFALL TOTALS. TRIBUTARIES TO THE DOUBLE MOUNTAIN FORK OF THE BRAZOS RIVER MAY FLOW OUT OF THEIR BANKS. A FLASH FLOOD WARFNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.
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, May 8, 11:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ021>044-081930- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THIS MORNINGS WEATHER MAP SHOWED A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STRETCHED FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST TO JUST SOUTH OF LUBBOCK INTO THE NORTHERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS JUST SOUTH OF CHILDRESS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE AND AFTERNOON HEATING AID IN PRODUCING LIFT ALONG THE FRONT. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE EAST NORTHEAST. THERE IS A THREAT OVER THESE AREAS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION BY MID AFTERNOON. JAMES
Special weather statement, May 8, 11:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ021>044-081930- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1145 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING OVER THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THIS MORNING'S WEATHER MAP SHOWED A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT STRETCHED FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST TO JUST SOUTH OF LUBBOCK INTO THE NORTHERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS JUST SOUTH OF CHILDRESS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE REGION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE AND AFTERNOON HEATING AID IN PRODUCING LIFT ALONG THE FRONT. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE EAST NORTHEAST. THERE IS A THREAT OVER THESE AREAS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION BY MID AFTERNOON. JAMES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 47 min |
| May 8, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 61 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 46 min |
| May 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 48 min |
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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.