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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT for Crosby County, Garza 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1999, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Crosby County, TX, Garza County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 37 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, 37 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, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 64 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Kent | 30 min |
| May 9, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 38 min |
| May 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 46 min |
| May 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.