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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2005, 6:35 AM CDT for King County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2005, 6:35 AM CDT (11:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County King County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KLUB 081140 FFWLUB TXC269-081330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 635 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 632 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN KING COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN KING BETWEEN 5 AM AND 630 AM HAVE BEEN INDICATED. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED AS THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOP OVER THIS AREA AND MOVE VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...COUNTRY ROADS...AND LOW LYING RANCHLAND. LAT...LON 3369 10026 3366 10052 3339 10052 3339 10017 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KLUB 081246 FFSLUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 743 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 TXC269-081330- KING TX- 743 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR KING COUNTY... AT 745 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF GUTHRIE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER KING COUNTY DURING THE PAST 3 HOURS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 9 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3369 10026 3366 10052 3339 10052 3339 10017 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 59 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.