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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 25, 2000Garza County, Kent County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 679 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 25, 7:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBGarza3 hr
Oct 25, 10:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBGarza106 min
Oct 25, 12:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBKent3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.