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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 11, 2000Lamb County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2000, 2:54 PM CDT for Lamb County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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 11, 2000, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lamb County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1299 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KLUB 111956
FFWLUB
TXC279-112200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
254 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEAST LAMB COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEAST LAMB COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF
  LITTLEFIELD...MOVING SLOWLY EAST. RAINFALL RATES UP TO 3 INCHES
  PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED.

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 WPEATHER SERVICE AT
806-745-4260.

LAT...LON 3403 10209 3384 10209 3384 10238 3402 10239

The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb39 min
Jun 11, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb40 min
Jun 11, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock48 min
Jun 11, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer57 min
Jun 11, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock62 min
Jun 11, 4:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBLubbock118 min
Jun 11, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran55 min
Jun 11, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry62 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.