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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 4, 20106 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2010, 6:19 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 116 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, 6:19 AM CDT (11:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 2010, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Garza County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, 5:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 5:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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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, 2:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBriscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hall and 4 more117 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, 6:36 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

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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.