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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 4, 201010 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2010, 2:18 AM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 117 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
Jul 4, 2010, 2:18 AM CDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2010, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2010-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 335 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 2010-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 4, 12:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 12:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 11:28 AM CDT, 14 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1128 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2010

TXZ021>044-041630-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
1128 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

FLOODING

A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING. PERIODS OF WIDESPREAD AND OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. COMBINING THE EXPECTED RAIN
TOTALS WITH RAIN WHICH HAS ALREADY FALLEN THERE IS A HIGH LIKELIHOOD
OF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING WILL PERSIST THROUGH AT
LEAST EARLY SUNDAY...BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING LATE SUNDAY OR
EARLY MONDAY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 6 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BY
LATE THIS WEEKEND...WITH LOCALIZED 8 INCH TOTALS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY REPORTS OF FLOODING
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCrosby, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock and 3 more3 hr
Jul 3, 7:59 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningLUBLynn, Terry, Yoakum2 hr
Jul 3, 9:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBTerry116 min
Jul 3, 10:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCrosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock and 2 more3 hr
Jul 3, 10:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry2 hr
Jul 4, 12:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley3 hr
Jul 4, 12:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBriscoe, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza and 10 more96 min
Jul 4, 2:38 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLUBFloyd, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry6 hr
Jul 4, 4:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBriscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hall and 4 more118 min
Jul 4, 4:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 12 more15 hr
Jul 4, 6:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, Lubbock, Lynn116 min
Jul 4, 6:36 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall, King and 2 more114 min
Jul 4, 7:52 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyLUBGarza, Lynn113 min
Jul 4, 7:53 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Dickens, Hockley, Kent, Lubbock, Lynn and 1 more4 hr
Jul 4, 8:35 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall, King and 2 more3 hr
Jul 4, 10:07 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLUBGarza, Lynn3 hr
Jul 4, 11:11 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLUBStonewall7 days
Jul 4, 11:29 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCottle, King, Stonewall3 hr
Jul 4, 11:48 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBDickens, Kent3 hr
Jul 4, 1:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Lynn119 min
Jul 4, 3:00 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLUBGarza5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.