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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 31, 2022Garza County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2022, 3:59 PM CDT for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
Aug 31, 2022, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 2022, 4:39 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Garza County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 2022-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 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 2022-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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 Aug 31, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
249 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022

TXZ021>044-012000-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
249 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Numerous showers and thunderstorms with moderate to heavy rainfall
are expected to continue across the region for the remainder of this
afternoon and evening. Periods of heavy rainfall may continue to
produce flash flooding until later this evening, especially in low
lying urban areas. The heaviest rainfall is expected to taper off by
sunset, with lingering light to moderate rainfall possible across the
southern South Plains and Rolling Plains through the overnight
hours.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Additional scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible on
Thursday, decreasing in coverage from north to south throughout the
day. Thunderstorm chances return across much of the region on
Saturday, with low chances for thunderstorms also continuing into
early next week across the southern South Plains and Rolling Plains.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 31, 1:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
121 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022

TXZ021-022-027>029-033>036-039>043-312030-
Parmer-Castro-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-
Yoakum-Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-
Including the cities of Friona, Bovina, Farwell, Dimmitt, Hart,
Muleshoe, Littlefield, Amherst, Olton, Plainview, Hale Center,
Morton, Whiteface, Levelland, Sundown, Lubbock, Wolfforth,
Slaton, Ralls, Crosbyton, Denver City, Plains, Brownfield,
Meadow, Wellman, Tahoka, New Home, ODonnell, Post,
Lake Alan Henry, and Jayton
121 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022

...Tropical-type funnel clouds have been sighted across the
Lubbock area this afternoon in association with bands of heavy
rain showers...

At 111 PM CDT, Doppler radar showed several westward moving bands of
showers and thunderstorms stretching from Parmer County in the
northwest to Stonewall County in the southeast. Atmospheric conditions
this afternoon are favorable for funnel cloud or landspout
formation. Occasionally, funnel clouds can briefly reach the
ground and become a landspout.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building if a
landspout is observed.
Local storm report, Aug 31, 1:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 31, 3:48 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 11:35 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBKent, Stonewall115 min
Aug 31, 12:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Hockley, Lubbock4 hr
Aug 31, 1:07 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 1 more2 hr
Aug 31, 1:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBCottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent and 3 more2 hr
Aug 31, 1:39 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza, Hockley, Lynn, Terry88 min
Aug 31, 2:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCrosby, Garza, Lynn4 hr
Aug 31, 3:06 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lynn, Terry, Yoakum2 hr
Aug 31, 4:58 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBGarza68 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.