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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 27, 2005Parmer County, Texas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 27, 10:25 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD22 Sw Friona, TXNUMEROUS FLOODED AREAS ON HIGHWAY 145...FM1731...AND FM333. ONE MOTORIST STRANDED AND RESCUED.
Aug 27, 10:30 PM CDTFLASH FLOOD10 Nw Muleshoe, TXNUMEROUS 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1138 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Lynn50 min
Aug 27, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer30 min
Aug 27, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock29 min
Aug 27, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza32 min
Aug 27, 7:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBParmer119 min
Aug 27, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey40 min
Aug 27, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn57 min
Aug 27, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey33 min
Aug 27, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Hockley66 min
Aug 27, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb26 min
Aug 27, 8:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBailey, Lamb3 hr
Aug 27, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHockley49 min
Aug 27, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.