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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
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.
- 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
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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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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.