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Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flood watch at Jun 1, 2016, 2:51 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 1, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2016, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 1, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 Jun 1, 6:34 AM CDT, 8 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 6:34 AM CDT, 8 hours 17 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Lubbock TX 634 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 .AVIATION... There is a good chance of MVFR ceilings through much of the TAF period as well as showers and a few thunderstorms (the latter mainly afternoon to evening hours) as an upper level trough moves overhead and interacts with low to mid level moisture in place across the region. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 328 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016/ SHORT TERM... Radar trends showing remaining precipitation, in general, on a downward trend in line with hi-res short term models. Focus will then shift to precipitation chances for today and tonight. The center of the upper low that has been one of the important factors in the precipitation development the last 12 to 24 hours is centered over northern Sonora early this morning. This low will move to northern Chihuahua by late day, then opening up some as moves to the Big Bend and southwest Texas overnight. At the surface a northeast flow will develop today in response to both high pressure building into the central plains and weak cyclogenesis south of the Rio Grande. This should limit low level convergence with the potential for only very subtle low level forcing. This means precipitation today will be a combination of mid to upper level forcing as the low and associated jet streak move toward the region and a gradual destabilization of the air mass in place across the forecast area. However, cool air moving in with the northeasterly surface flow and abundant cloud cover will limit upward potential for temperatures, and thus magnitude of instability. Model progs suggesting afternoon MLCAPE values of 500-1000 J/kg which will be enough to generate convection given weak cap and synoptic scale forcing but will also limit severe potential. PWATs progged near 1.25 inches are pretty typical for this time of year, but potential for some slowly moving storms suggests possibility of localized heavy rainfall. Hard at this time to see a focus for precipitation. Majority of the guidance slightly favors southern half of the forecast area, although of note are the WRF-NAM and TTU-WRF that tend to favor the north. Movement of storms should favor west to east initially, but as the low approaches tonight and upper flow backs from south to east will see a tendency for storms, particulary those across the northern half of the area, to move east to west. LONG TERM... No large changes were introduced with this forecast package. Aforementioned upper low is still favored to lose its phasing with a northern stream trough and stall over the Hill Country by Thursday evening. PWAT axis will have shifted well to our east by this time, however enough lingering moisture northwest of this low combined with diurnal destabilization could easily enhance one final round of storms over much of the region on Thursday. Thereafter, increasing subsidence and drying ahead of stout upper ridging in the Desert SW will nudge eastward and serve to dry out the brunt of the forecast area on Friday. The exception to this is our southeast zones nearest the upper low and the back edge of its moist layer. Thereafter, the upper flow trends more northeasterly south of a zonal extension of the upper ridge poised to our west. There is still some opportunity for this flow to buckle more northwesterly by late in the weekend through early next week which may direct a conditional threat of storms our way from the Raton Mesa, but the model spectrum is not in agreement with this scenario at present time. High temps will easily rebound near seasonal norms in the wake of the upper low/trough. && .LUB Watches/Warnings/Advisories... None. && 07/93/07
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 11:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1126 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 TXZ021>044-021630- PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE- FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING- YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL- 1126 AM CDT WED JUN 1 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS...ROLLING PLAINS AND THE FAR SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHWEST PANHANDLE. MEANWHILE...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLED ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN ROLLING PLAINS MAY PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR MORE CONCENTRATED HEAVY RAINFALL THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE THREAT OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1227 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1216 PM FLOOD 4 NNE LUBBOCK 33.63N 101.85W
06/01/2016 LUBBOCK TX ASOS
YARD FLOODED BY INTENSE RAIN. STILL RAINING AT THE TIME
OF THE REPORT. 3.22 INCHES MEASURED IN THE LAST 2 HOURS.
2.92 INCHES FELL IN THE PAST HOUR.
1216 PM HEAVY RAIN 4 NNE LUBBOCK 33.63N 101.85W
06/01/2016 M3.29 INCH LUBBOCK TX ASOS
YARD FLOODED BY INTENSE RAIN. STILL RAINING AT THE TIME
OF THE REPORT. 3.22 INCHES MEASURED IN THE LAST 2 HOURS.
2.92 INCHES FELL IN THE PAST HOUR.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB1600220
EVENT NUMBER LUB1600221
GDSLocal storm report, Jun 1, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
1234 PM CDT WED JUN 01 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1227 PM FLASH FLOOD 6 W LUBBOCK 33.58N 101.98W
06/01/2016 LUBBOCK TX PUBLIC
WATER RAPIDLY FLOWING OVER FRANKFORD AVENUE INTO THE
GOLF COURSE BETWEEN 19TH AND 34TH STREET. ROAD IS NEARLY
IMPASSABLE.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LUB1600222
GDSLocal storm report, Jun 1, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 21 min |
| Jun 1, 10:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 109 min |
| Jun 1, 11:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 2 more | 112 min |
| Jun 1, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 114 min |
| Jun 1, 12:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 86 min |
| Jun 1, 1:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Hale, Lubbock | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Lamb | 115 min |
| Jun 1, 3:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher | 112 min |
| Jun 1, 3:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, Motley and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Floyd, Hall and 3 more | 3 hr |
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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.