Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at May 28, 2006, 4:24 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 28, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2006, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 28, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 28, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 28, 4:00 AM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 4:00 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 6:30 AM CDT, 21 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 630 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006 TXZ021>023-027>029-033>035-039>041-281130- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN- 630 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...MAINLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 27 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 87. VERY WARM TEMPERATURES...AND GUSTY WINDS COMBINED WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL PRODUCE AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS WELL...AND MAY BE NEEDED FOR MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. TXZ024>026-030>032-036>038-042>044-281130- BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 630 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THE DRY LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY NEAR AND EAST OF THE CAPROCK. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE WINDS WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE MONDAY ALONG AND EAST OF THE DRY LINE. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ON ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 58 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 35 min |
| May 27, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 60 min |
| May 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 37 min |
| May 27, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 25 min |
| May 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 59 min |
| May 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 66 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.