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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
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.
- 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
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.