Alert archive / Texas / Flood Watches in 2017
Flood Watch 1, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flood watch at Apr 12, 2017, 11:54 AM CDT for 22 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 12, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2017, 11:54 AM CDT (16:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 12, 2017, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2017, 3:34 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 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 12, 6:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 6:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 10:59 AM CDT, 55 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1059 AM CDT Wed Apr 12 2017 TXZ021>044-131600- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale- Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King- Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1059 AM CDT Wed Apr 12 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains...Rolling Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Slow-moving showers and thunderstorms will expand in coverage today and especially overnight. Heavy rain and flooding will be the greatest threats with these thunderstorms, although some marginally severe hail and strong wind gusts are also possible, particularly across the western South Plains this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday The likelihood of hazardous weather is low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report flooding and heavy rainfall amounts.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 28 min |
| Apr 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 27 min |
| Apr 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 30 min |
| Apr 12, 3:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 25 min |
| Apr 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hockley | 30 min |
Nearby
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.