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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 8, 200719 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 8, 2007, 7:05 AM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2007, 7:05 AM CDT (12:05 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2007, 6:52 PM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Flood severity
None

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 12:00Z on 2007-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 453 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 12:00Z on 2007-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 8, 6:36 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:36 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 7:01 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 1:34 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
134 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

TXZ030-080700-
FLOYD TX-
134 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS FLOYD COUNTY...

AT 130 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF FLOYDADA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 2:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
201 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

TXZ025-030-031-080730-
HALL TX-MOTLEY TX-FLOYD TX-
201 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS FLOYD...MOTLEY AND HALL COUNTIES...

AT 155 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING
A SERIES OF THREE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CEDAR
HILL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLOYDADA...TO NEAR TURKEY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. BRIEF AND LOCALIZED
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION BRIEF BURST OF
RAIN UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH MAY OCCUR. WATCH FOR PONDING
ALONG ROADWAYS.
Special weather statement, May 8, 3:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
322 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

TXZ026-080845-
CHILDRESS TX-
322 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CHILDRESS
COUNTY...

AT 316 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TELL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF
CHILDRESS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT
CHILDRESS AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287 BY 345 PM.

SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, May 8, 4:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 8, 5:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 8, 6:42 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 3:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress28 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2007Every flash flood watch in 2007

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.