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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2016, 9:56 PM CDT for Hall County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 109 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2016, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
445
WGUS54 KLUB 240256
FFWLUB
TXC191-345-240445-
/O.NEW.KLUB.FF.W.0003.160524T0256Z-160524T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
956 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...
SOUTHERN HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
* AT 951 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL HEAVY RAIN
ACROSS PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA ASSOCIATED WITH A NEARLY
STATIONARY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. UP TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... TURKEY AND
NORTHFIELD. FARM ROAD 656 BETWEEN TURKEY AND NORTHFIELD WILL BE
ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3452 10043 3433 10043 3433 10053 3415 10053
3415 10092 3451 10093
$$
LIPE1 follow-up statement
451
WGUS74 KLUB 240340
FFSLUB
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1040 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
TXC191-345-240445-
/O.CON.KLUB.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160524T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MOTLEY TX-HALL TX-
1040 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN MOTLEY AND SOUTHERN HALL COUNTIES...
AT 1034 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE
WARNED AREA. RADAR INDICATES FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
JUST NORTHEAST OF TURKEY THIS EVENING. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY
OCCURRING. ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE FLASH
FLOODING WAS WEAKENING AND MOVING NORTHEAST...FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...RURAL
AREA EAST OF TURKEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3452 10043 3433 10043 3433 10053 3415 10053
3415 10092 3451 10093
$$
LIPEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 26 min |
| May 23, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 38 min |
| May 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 45 min |
| May 23, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 25 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hall | 93 min |
| May 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent, Lynn | 30 min |
| May 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LUB | Childress, Hall | 4 hr |
| May 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hall | 2 hr |
| May 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 45 min |
| May 23, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent | 9 min |
| May 23, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 32 min |
| May 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Motley | 45 min |
| May 23, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 22 min |
| May 23, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 49 min |
| May 23, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 31 min |
| May 23, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 16 min |
| May 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Childress, Hall | 47 min |
| May 23, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 20 min |
| May 24, 12:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress | 45 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.