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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 14, 1998Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1998, 8:57 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 118 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 14, 1998, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1998, 10:55 PM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Childress County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 1998-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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 1998-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 150158
FFWLBB
TXC075-150355-

BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
857 PM CDT THU MAY 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 1055 PM CDT

* AT 850 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 12 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF
  CHILDRESS...   MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA OF WESTERN
  CHILDRESS COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
  RAINFALL RATES OF 3 INCHES IN ONE HOUR.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.

EP/TT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens43 min
May 14, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress45 min
May 14, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley31 min
May 14, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza34 min
May 14, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress36 min
May 14, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Motley32 min
May 14, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress50 min
May 14, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress33 min
May 15, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza47 min
May 15, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd47 min
May 15, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe48 min
May 15, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, Motley47 min
May 15, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza33 min
May 15, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall36 min
May 15, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent35 min
May 15, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress47 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.