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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1999, 6:29 PM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1999, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1999, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lubbock County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLUB 092333 FFWLBB TXC303-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 629 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 624 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK INT. AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABERNATHY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE NEW DEAL. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. V TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LUBBOCK. LAT...LON 3363 10190 3368 10156 3383 10155 3383 10193
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 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
TXZ022>044-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 623 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 231 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS... CASTRO SWISHER BAILEY LAMB COCHRAN HOCKLEY YOAKUM TERRY THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS... BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA AND THE ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED FOR THE TIME BEING WEST OF A TULIA-LEVELLAND-BROWNFIELD LINE. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EJC
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
TXZ022>044-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 623 PM CDT SUN MAY 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 231 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE SOUTH PLAINS... CASTRO SWISHER BAILEY LAMB COCHRAN HOCKLEY YOAKUM TERRY THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...THE SOUTH PLAINS AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS... BRISCOE HALL CHILDRESS HALE FLOYD MOTLEY COTTLE LUBBOCK CROSBY DICKENS KING LYNN GARZA KENT STONEWALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE WATCH AREA AND THE ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED FOR THE TIME BEING WEST OF A TULIA-LEVELLAND-BROWNFIELD LINE. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 50 min |
| May 9, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 46 min |
| May 9, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 49 min |
| May 9, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 61 min |
| May 9, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 61 min |
| May 9, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 65 min |
| May 9, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 43 min |
| May 9, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 31 min |
| May 9, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Lynn | 53 min |
| May 9, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 52 min |
| May 9, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 39 min |
| May 9, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 51 min |
| May 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 63 min |
| May 9, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 57 min |
| May 9, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 46 min |
| May 9, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.