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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

July 16, 20144 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 16, 2014, 6:16 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jul 16, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2014, 6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 16, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 17, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Flood severity
None

Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 334 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2014-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2014-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.