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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 15, 2006Garza County, Kent County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2006, 4:50 AM CDT for Garza County, Kent 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2006, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
Expired
Oct 15, 2006, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 2006-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 438 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 00:00Z on 2006-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 10:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran57 min
Oct 15, 12:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale20 min
Oct 15, 12:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHale2 hr
Oct 15, 2:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLUBBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.