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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2023, 1:39 AM CDT for Dickens County, Texas. It was in force for 112 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
- Sep 16, 2023, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2023, 3:31 AM CDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Dickens County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Sep 16, 12:39 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 12:39 AM CDT, 1 hour before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 123 PM CDT Fri Sep 15 2023 TXZ021>044-161830- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 123 PM CDT Fri Sep 15 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible late this afternoon and evening with the highest chances near the New Mexico state line. Hail up to golf ball size and wind gusts to 60 mph will be possible with this isolated activity. An additional round of more widespread thunderstorms is expected later tonight with primary hazards being wind gusts up to 70 mph and localized heavy rainfall. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Thunderstorm chances return for the Monday through Thursday period, mainly across areas to the east of the Interstate 27 corridor. Some storms may produce locally heavy rainfall and strong winds. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 16, 1:32 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb, Swisher | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 67 min |
| Sep 15, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 60 min |
| Sep 15, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 57 min |
| Sep 15, 11:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Hale, Swisher | 2 hr |
| Sep 15, 11:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Parmer | 2 hr |
| Sep 15, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 54 min |
| Sep 16, 12:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hale | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Motley | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 55 min |
| Sep 16, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn | 66 min |
| Sep 16, 2:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lubbock | 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.