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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 10:25 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 22 Sw Friona, TX | NUMEROUS FLOODED AREAS ON HIGHWAY 145...FM1731...AND FM333. ONE MOTORIST STRANDED AND RESCUED. |
| Aug 27, 10:30 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 10 Nw Muleshoe, TX | NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED. HIGHWAY 1760 UNDER WATER FROM 10 MILES WEST/NORTHWEST OF MULESHOE TO THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE/16 MILES WEST/NORTHWEST OF MULESHOE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KLUB 280258 FFWLUB TXC369-280600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 955 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PARMER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING WEST INTO PARMER COUNTY FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE RHEA...OKLAHOMA LANE...LARIAT...BLACK...FRIONA...SUMMERFIELD AND BOVINA. HEAVY RAIN FELL EARLIER IN THE EVENING...AND WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT...FLOODING IS LIKELY ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF PARMER COUNTY BETWEEN BOVINA AND LARIAT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3431 10302 3432 10253 3474 10252 3474 10301 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KLUB 280501 FFSLUB FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1158 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 2005 TXC369-280600- PARMER TX- 1158 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PARMER COUNTY... AT 1157 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARMER COUNTY EXTENDING WEST INTO NEW MEXICO. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RHEA... BLACK...FRIONA AND SUMMERFIELD. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH MAY OCCUR...WITH ADDITIONAL FLOODING POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHWESTERN AREAS OF PARMER COUNTY NEAR OKLAHOMA LANE WHERE STORM TOTALS OF OVER 3 INCHES HAVE LIKELY FALLEN SATURDAY EVENING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3431 10302 3432 10253 3474 10252 3474 10301 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 29 min |
| Aug 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 7:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Parmer | 119 min |
| Aug 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 57 min |
| Aug 27, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Lamb | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hockley | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 42 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.