Alert archive / Texas / Flood Watches in 2016
Flood Watch 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flood watch at Apr 15, 2016, 3:43 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 16, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2016, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2016, 1:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Motley County, TX, Stonewall County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Apr 15, 3:23 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 3:23 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 15, 3:36 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 336 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2016 TXZ021>044-162045- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 336 PM CDT FRI APR 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS AND THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SURROUNDING THE ENHANCED RISK THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP NEAR A DRYLINE ACROSS THE WESTERN OR CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE ACTIVITY SPREADING EASTWARD INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ONCE STORMS DEVELOP...THEY WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE...WITH A SUPERCELLULAR MODE FAVORED. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE HAIL TO TENNIS BALL SIZE...WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE ENHANCED RISK AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAIN THOUGH LARGE HAIL CANNOT BE RULED OUT. ELEVATED OR BRIEFLY CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER WILL DEVELOP WEST OF THE DRYLINE ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND FAR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY NIGHT MAINLY FROM THE CENTRAL SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHERN PANHANDLE INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL TRANSITION TO WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL SATURDAY EVENING INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS THE EASTERN SOUTH PLAINS INTO THE ROLLING PLAINS WHERE FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AND A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY YET EXIST ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.
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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.