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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 31, 1998Parmer County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 31, 1998, 12:37 AM CST for Parmer 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: Oct 31, 1998, 12:37 AM CST (06:37 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 1998, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Parmer County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 310639
FFWLBB
TXC369-310930-

BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1237 AM CST SAT OCT 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PARMER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 1230 AM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WEST OF A LINE FROM LARIAT TO
  BOVINA TO FRIONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH.

* DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF RAINFALL OVER PARMER COUNTY EARLIER
  THIS EVENING INCLUDED 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE
  COUNTY...WITH UPWARDS OF 5 INCHES OVER EXTREME NORTHERN PARMER
  COUNTY. MORE RAINFALL IS TRAINING OVER THE AREA...AND THIS WILL
  LIKELY FURTHER AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!

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

Local storm report, Oct 30, 8:50 PM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
850 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    13 WNW FRIONA             TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   PARMER                         FRIONA PD REPORTED NICKEL
                                          TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE
                                          COMMUNITY OF RHEA

0636 PM    DIMMITT                   TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   CASTRO                         CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE REPORTED NICKEL TO
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

0636 PM    12 WSW DIMMITT            TX   TORNADO
10/30/98   CASTRO                         CASTRO COUNTY SHERIFFS
                                          OFFICE REPORTED A BRIEF
                                          TORNADO TOUCHDOWN

0640 PM    13 WNW FRIONA             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
10/30/98   PARMER                         NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                                          CONTACT REPORTED GOLF BALL
                                          SIZE HAIL IN THE COMMUNITY
                                          OF RHEA

0716 PM    DIMMITT                   TX   TORNADO
10/30/98   CASTRO                         SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A
                                          TORNADO AT AN UNKNOWN
  ^                                        DISTANCE NORTH OF DIMMIT

CBD

Special weather statement, Oct 30, 9:03 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before

TXZ021-022-027>029-033>035-039>041-310345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
903 PM CST FRI OCT 30 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST
PANHANDLE UNTIL 11 PM.

PARMER...CASTRO...BAILEY...LAMB...HALE...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY...LUBBOCK
...YOAKUM...TERRY AND LYNN COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER UNDER A TORNADO
WATCH.

SCATTERED SHOWExRS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT MUCH OF
THE AREA TONIGHT...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS
DIMINSIHED.

LV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 6:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	48 min
Oct 30, 6:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	32 min
Oct 30, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Parmer	17 min
Oct 30, 6:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro	33 min
Oct 30, 7:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	33 min
Oct 31, 2:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley	31 min
Oct 31, 11:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Castro	118 min
Oct 31, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Terry	49 min
Oct 31, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lubbock	48 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.