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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 29, 1999, 12:04 AM CDT for Dickens County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 29, 1999, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1999, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dickens County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 941 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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, Apr 28, 9:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ021>044-290315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 955 PM CDT WED APR 28 1999 CANCEL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING WEST TEXAS COUNTIES... PARMER...CASTRO...BAILEY...LAMB...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 11 PM. JV
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 9:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ021>044-290315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 955 PM CDT WED APR 28 1999 CANCEL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING WEST TEXAS COUNTIES... PARMER...CASTRO...BAILEY...LAMB...COCHRAN...HOCKLEY THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS...EXTREME SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS UNTIL 11 PM. JV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent | 49 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.