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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 6, 2002Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2002, 9:41 AM CDT for Stonewall 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2002, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2002, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stonewall County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1926 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
1926 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 061441
FFWLBB
TXC433-061800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
940 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STONEWALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 930 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN OVER ASPERMONT. STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY AND      
  REDEVELOPING OVER THE SAME AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY OCCUR 
  FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

* LOCATIONS IN AND NEAR THE WARNING INCLUDE ASPERMONT...OLD          
  GLORY...PEACOCK AND SWENSON

RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OVER THE PAST HOUR HAVE INDICATED UP TO 2 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHEAST STONEWALL COUNTY. SOME 
MINOR FLOODING COULD OCCUR ALONG THE DOUBLE MOUNTAIN FORK OF THE 
BRAZOS RIVER SOUTH OF ASPERMONT.  

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 FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3297 10051 3298 10001 3338 10000 3338 10050

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 6:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBStonewall3 hr

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.