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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 17, 2019Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2019, 10:07 PM CDT for Terry County, Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2019, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 2254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 17, 7:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 7:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 11:42 AM CDT, 10 hours 25 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1142 AM CDT Mon Jun 17 2019

TXZ021>044-180445-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-
Floyd-Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-
Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
1142 AM CDT Mon Jun 17 2019

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling
Plains and the far Southern Texas Panhandle.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Strong or severe thunderstorms are expected to develop in eastern
New Mexico this afternoon and move east into the southwestern
Texas Panhandle and western South Plains this evening until the
early morning hours Tuesday. Isolated severe thunderstorms will be
capable of large hail from 1 to 2 inch diameter and wind gusts to
70 mph.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday

Tuesday afternoon and evening may see a period of severe storms
across much of the South Plains and Rolling Plains, as well as
portions of the southeastern Texas Panhandle. Very large hail and
damaging winds will be the primary threat. Strong thunderstorms
may once again be possible late Friday along the dryline.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be requested later today.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
639 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0611 PM     HAIL             5 S MULESHOE            34.16N 102.73W
06/17/2019  E1.50 INCH       BAILEY             TX   STORM CHASER

            HAIL FALLING SPORADICALLY ON SR 214.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LUB1900541

JWL

Local storm report, Jun 17, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:09 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:18 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Bailey, Parmer	4 hr
Jun 17, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	56 min
Jun 17, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	54 min
Jun 17, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	62 min
Jun 17, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lamb	61 min
Jun 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	64 min
Jun 17, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	46 min
Jun 17, 9:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	116 min
Jun 17, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Hale, Swisher	43 min
Jun 17, 10:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley	62 min
Jun 17, 11:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd	26 min
Jun 17, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	33 min
Jun 17, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	29 min
Jun 17, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran	34 min
Jun 17, 11:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	2 hr
Jun 18, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	60 min
Jun 18, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	26 min
Jun 18, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	57 min
Jun 18, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	24 min
Jun 18, 2:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Stonewall	14 min
Jun 18, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	44 min
Jun 18, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	61 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.