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Flood Watch 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 6, 201819 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flood watch at Oct 6, 2018, 2:21 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 6, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 66 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 6, 2018, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 6, 2018, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 9, 2018, 9:36 AM CDT
In force
66 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, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 208 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2018-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 7:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLubbock2 hr
Oct 5, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher61 min
Oct 5, 7:25 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher2 hr
Oct 5, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock32 min
Oct 5, 8:04 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBTerry, Yoakum116 min
Oct 5, 8:38 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLynn, Terry112 min
Oct 5, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby45 min
Oct 6, 5:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKent22 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Texas, 2018Every flood watch in 2018

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.