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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2023, 8:21 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 26, 2023, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2023, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Parmer County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 May 26, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED National Weather Service Lubbock TX 1136 AM CDT Fri May 26 2023 TXZ021>044-271645- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 1136 AM CDT Fri May 26 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorms are expected to develop in eastern New Mexico this afternoon and move southeast into the western South Plains and far southwest Texas Panhandle by this evening. Additional rounds of storms are possible overnight over much of the outlook area. Any of these could become severe with hail to two inches in diameter and wind gusts around 70 mph. Localized flooding will also be possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Thunderstorms are expected to develop each afternoon and persist into the evening and overnight hours from Saturday through Thursday. Some storms this weekend may be severe with large hail and damaging winds. Heavy rainfall may also result in localized flash flooding. While a slight chance of thunderstorms still exists Monday and Tuesday, the pattern looks more favorable for potential severe weather by mid-week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 7:29 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 26, 7:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 63 min |
| May 26, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 32 min |
| May 26, 9:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 33 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Parmer | 3 hr |
| May 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro | 31 min |
| May 27, 1:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 3 hr |
| May 27, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 29 min |
| May 27, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 34 min |
| May 27, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 21 min |
| May 27, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 2 hr |
| May 27, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Castro, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 53 min |
| May 27, 10:48 AM CDT | Flood Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd and 10 more | 12 hr |
| May 27, 11:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LUB | Childress | 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.