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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 3, 2023Lynn County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 3, 2023, 1:52 AM CDT for Lynn 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: Oct 3, 2023, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2023, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lynn County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 6.9 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: 998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Oct 2, 6:42 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 6:42 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 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
Oct 2, 7:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Terry, Yoakum	2 hr
Oct 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Terry, Yoakum	48 min
Oct 2, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry	44 min
Oct 2, 9:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley, Terry	3 hr
Oct 2, 11:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	3 hr
Oct 3, 12:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Lynn, Terry	3 hr
Oct 3, 1:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Terry	34 min
Oct 3, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran	19 min
Oct 3, 2:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Lynn	2 hr
Oct 3, 3:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Garza	90 min
Oct 3, 6:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	3 hr
Oct 3, 8:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LUB	Lubbock	15 hr

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.