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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 10, 2022Yoakum County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT for Yoakum County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2022, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 3742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 May 10, 6:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 6:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 3:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
331 PM CDT Tue May 10 2022

TXZ021>044-112045-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
331 PM CDT Tue May 10 2022

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 11 PM tonight for the
southern Texas Panhandle, South Plains and Rolling Plains. Scattered
thunderstorms will be possible late this afternoon into the evening
for much of the South Plains, southern Texas Panhandle, and Rolling
Plains. These storms will be capable of becoming severe, with wind
gusts to 80 mph and hail up to two inches in diameter. Slow-moving
storms will also be capable of producing heavy rainfall and localized
flooding.

Warm temperatures, dry conditions, and breezy winds will contribute
to elevated fire weather conditions in the extreme southwestern
Texas Panhandle and northwestern South Plains today. A Rangeland
Fire Danger Statement is in effect for these areas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail will be
possible once again on Wednesday, mainly west of the Caprock
Escarpment. Severe thunderstorms will also be possible across much
of the area on Thursday and Friday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 8:52 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 8:53 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 9:13 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 9:18 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 9:19 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 10, 9:21 PM CDT, 2 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
May 10, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher	39 min
May 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	62 min
May 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Yoakum	2 hr
May 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	38 min
May 10, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	52 min
May 10, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Yoakum	49 min
May 10, 8:21 PM CDT	Dust Storm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Terry	39 min
May 10, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall	36 min
May 10, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	62 min
May 10, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Lynn	37 min
May 10, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lynn	35 min
May 10, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Floyd, Hall	32 min
May 10, 9:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	74 min
May 10, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn	51 min
May 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	53 min
May 10, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn	37 min
May 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	2 hr
May 10, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Lubbock, Motley	38 min
May 10, 10:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hall, Motley	2 hr
May 10, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	37 min
May 10, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Cottle, Dickens, Floyd, Hall, Motley	63 min
May 10, 10:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Lubbock	72 min
May 10, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley	56 min
May 10, 11:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Childress, Hall	2 hr
May 10, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle, Hall, King	37 min
May 11, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Kent	33 min
May 11, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Parmer	60 min
May 11, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Castro, Parmer	61 min

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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.