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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2000, 3:50 AM CDT for Castro County, 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2000, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2000, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Castro County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KLUB 280852 FFWLUB TXC069-369-281200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 350 AM CDT WED JUN 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PARMER COUNTY CASTRO COUNTY * UNTIL 7 AM CDT * AT 350 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF PARMER AND CASTRO COUNTIES. RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY ARE BOTH SUGGESTING RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR OVER THIS AREA. * BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF ROAD AND STREAM FLOODING. DRIVE VERY CAUTIOUSLY. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. THE HEAVIEST STORM TOTAL AMOUNTS INCLUDE NEARLY 2 INCHES OVER WESTERN PARMER COUNTY NEAR RHEA...2.5 TO 3 INCHES WEST OF SUMMERFIELD IN NORTHEASTERN PARMER COUNTY...AND WIDESPREAD 1.5 TO 2 INCH AMOUNTS OVER NORTHWESTERN AND NORTHCENTAL SECTIONS OF CASTRO COUNTY FROM DIMMITT TO EASTER. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT FLOODING...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8:06-745-4260. LAT...LON 3472 10203 3435 10202 3435 10298 3473 10301 JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 113 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.