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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 8, 2005King County, Texas

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 454 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 11:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBStonewall2 hr
Aug 8, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer40 min
Aug 8, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey46 min
Aug 8, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran59 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.