Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

Issued

May 3, 2001, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)

Expired

May 4, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Lubbock, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Swisher County, TX

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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WGUS54 KLUB 040311
FFWLUB
TXC437-040600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1010 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SWISHER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1010 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER MUCH OF SWISHER COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS INDICATED
  OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN
  KRESS REPORTED DANGEROUS FLOODING WITH WATER OVER THE ROADWAY AT
  THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 145 AND 2301 IN CLAYTONVILLE.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MAY CONTINUE PAST MIDNIGHT...FURTHER
AGGRAVATING THE FLOOD SITUATION IN SWISHER 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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3433 10196 3433 10147 3474 10148 3474 10197

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 3, 9:30 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
930 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2001

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED DURING PAST HOUR AND SITUATION LOOKS TO
BE EVOLVING INTO HEAVY RAIN THREAT WITH INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET AND
LOTS OF JUICY AREA AHEAD OF COLD FRONT ACROSS THE NW HALF OF THE
AREA. DRY LINE HAS RETREATED INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO WHILE COLD
FRONT HAS REMAINED QUASI-STATIONARY FROM THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INTO
THE NORTHWESTERN SOUTH PLAINS. HAVE DECIDED TO MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN IN ZONE UPDATE WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD CONTINUE TO SLOWLY WEAKEN AS AIRMASS SLOWLY STABILIZES TOWARD
MIDNIGHT. STILL A FEW LARGE HAIcL REPORTS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.LUB...NONE.

JAMES

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.