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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 30, 20164 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2016, 10:22 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 83 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 30, 2016, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1876 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted.

566 
WGUS54 KLUB 310322
FFWLUB
TXC189-219-279-303-310445-
/O.NEW.KLUB.FF.W.0004.160531T0322Z-160531T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1022 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAMB COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...
  NORTHWESTERN LUBBOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...
  NORTHEASTERN HOCKLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...
  SOUTHWESTERN HALE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1020 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ANTON AND WHITHARRAL.  

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA. MOST OF THE RAIN WILL FALL VERY INTENSELY IN A SHORT PERIOD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3390 10202 3374 10181 3363 10231 3380 10236

$$

RMCQUEEN

1 follow-up statement

483 
WGUS74 KLUB 310419
FFSLUB

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1119 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

TXC189-219-279-303-310445-
/O.CON.KLUB.FF.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160531T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LAMB TX-LUBBOCK TX-HOCKLEY TX-HALE TX-
1119 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LAMB...NORTHWESTERN LUBBOCK...NORTHEASTERN HOCKLEY AND
SOUTHWESTERN HALE COUNTIES...

AT 1114 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN HOCKLEY AND NORTHWEST LUBBOCK COUNTIES.
RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM THE STORMS THIS EVENING HAVE RANGED
FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES CENTERED AROUND ANTON...BUT EXTENDING
THROUGH NORTHEAST HOCKLEY...SOUTHEAST LAMB...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST
HALE AND EXTREME NORTHWEST LUBBOCK COUNTIES. RAINFALL RATES HAD
MOSTLY DECLINED TO LESS THAN A HALF INCH PER HOUR...BUT AREAS OF
RUNNING WATER AND FLOODING ARE LIKELY TO REMAIN. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ANTON AND WHITHARRAL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3390 10202 3374 10181 3363 10231 3380 10236

$$

RMCQUEEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lamb	29 min
May 30, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Castro	36 min
May 30, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Lamb	30 min
May 30, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	35 min
May 30, 9:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lamb	118 min
May 30, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	38 min
May 30, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	35 min
May 30, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	38 min
May 30, 9:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	63 min
May 30, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	42 min
May 30, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	King, Stonewall	40 min
May 30, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock, Lynn	22 min
May 30, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	45 min
May 30, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	King	29 min
May 30, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn	23 min
May 30, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	31 min
May 30, 11:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	55 min

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.