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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 2000, 4:05 PM CDT for Garza County, Kent 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
- Oct 25, 2000, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KLUB 252105 FFWLUB TXC169-263-260000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 405 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GARZA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS KENT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS GARZA AND KENT COUNTIES. MANY ROADS ACROSS KENT AND GARZA COUNTIES HAVE BEEN FLOODED AND TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED. ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS LIKELY. * FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN OR NEAR... POST...JUSTICEBURG...GRAHAM...SOUTHLAND...LAKE ALAN HENRY... GIRARD....JAYTON...CLAREMONT AND RURAL AREAS OF GARZA COUNTY... DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES... DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENC.Y RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LUBBOCK. LAT...LON 3337 10155 3296 10155 3299 10054 3339 10053
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 10:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza | 106 min |
| Oct 25, 12:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Kent | 3 hr |
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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.