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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1999, 11:03 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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 25, 1999, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Floyd County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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 25, 5:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-032-037-038-042>044-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 516 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 238 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTH PLAINS AND LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 1100 PM... HALL CHILDRESS MOTLEY COTTLE DICKENS KING GARZA KENT STONEWALL LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 5 S PLAINVIEW TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 HALE BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
HERALD.Local storm report, May 25, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
632 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM 5 S PLAINVIEW TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 HALE BASEBALL HAIL ALONG
INTERSTATE 27. REPORT
RELAYED BY PLAINVIEW DAILY
HERALD.Local storm report, May 25, 6:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TEXAS
640 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM 7 WSW SPUR TX 2.5 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 DICKENS TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL
ALONG HIGHWAY 261.
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.Special weather statement, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
TXZ039>041-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 914 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR YOAKUM... TERRY...AND LYNN COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...ALL OF THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS...AND THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR KENT AND STONEWALL COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 29 min |
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 17 min |
| May 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 59 min |
| May 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 63 min |
| May 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 42 min |
| May 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 29 min |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 54 min |
| May 25, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 43 min |
| May 25, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd | 41 min |
| May 25, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 63 min |
| May 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 49 min |
| May 25, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 64 min |
| May 25, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 54 min |
| May 26, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 59 min |
| May 26, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 57 min |
| May 26, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 35 min |
| May 26, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 66 min |
| May 26, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 52 min |
| May 26, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 50 min |
| May 26, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lubbock | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| May 26, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 32 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 51 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.