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Areal Flood Advisory 49, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this areal flood advisory at May 31, 2021, 8:33 AM CDT for Lubbock County, Lynn County, Terry County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2021, 8:33 AM CDT (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2021, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Terry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:33 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at May 31, 6:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 6:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 31, 2:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
240 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2021
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0845 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 W MORTON 33.72N 102.83W
05/30/2021 COCHRAN TX STORM CHASER
TREES DOWN
0848 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 3 W MORTON 33.72N 102.81W
05/30/2021 COCHRAN TX FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
0850 PM HAIL 5 W MORTON 33.72N 102.85W
05/30/2021 E1.00 INCH COCHRAN TX STORM CHASER
0943 PM FLOOD BROWNFIELD 33.18N 102.27W
05/30/2021 TERRY TX STORM CHASER
MINOR STREET FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS IN THE CITY.
0950 PM FLOOD SUNDOWN 33.46N 102.49W
05/30/2021 HOCKLEY TX FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
EIGHT INCHES OF RUNNING WATER ACROSS HIGHWAY 301
1036 PM FLOOD LEVELLAND 33.58N 102.36W
05/30/2021 HOCKLEY TX TRAINED SPOTTER
MULTIPLE ROADS ACROSS HOCKLEY COUNTY UNDERWATER.
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EVENT NUMBER LUB2100381 LUB2100380 LUB2100385 LUB2100382 LUB2100383
LUB2100384
jwjSpecial weather statement, May 31, 2:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
245 AM CDT Mon May 31 2021
TXZ025-026-310815-
Childress TX-Hall TX-
245 AM CDT Mon May 31 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN CHILDRESS AND
NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTIES UNTIL 315 AM CDT...
At 245 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Memphis, moving southeast at 20 mph.
Wind gusts to 45 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Memphis, Estelline, Lakeview and Plaska Community.
LAT...LON 3464 10016 3439 10047 3463 10081 3475 10058
3475 10038
TIME...MOT...LOC 0745Z 306DEG 17KT 3469 10053
WCIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 2 hr |
| May 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Lamb | 80 min |
| May 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 60 min |
| May 30, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 25 min |
| May 30, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 55 min |
| May 30, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Terry, Yoakum | 2 hr |
| May 30, 9:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 24 min |
| May 30, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lamb | 22 min |
| May 30, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 61 min |
| May 30, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock, Lynn | 25 min |
| May 30, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 49 min |
| May 30, 11:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Garza, Kent, Lynn | 2 hr |
| May 30, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 66 min |
| May 30, 11:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 79 min |
| May 30, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza | 75 min |
| May 30, 11:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 65 min |
| May 30, 11:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 92 min |
| May 31, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 54 min |
| May 31, 12:07 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 104 min |
| May 31, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 62 min |
| May 31, 1:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 2 hr |
| May 31, 2:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 23 min |
| May 31, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent, Stonewall | 64 min |
| May 31, 2:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Hall | 30 min |
| May 31, 2:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Childress, Hall | 2 hr |
| May 31, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 34 min |
| May 31, 8:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Garza | 3 hr |
| May 31, 8:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Yoakum | 67 min |
| May 31, 12:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley | 2 hr |
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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.