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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Lubbock, TX

June 9, 2024Garza County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2024, 11:37 PM CDT for Garza County, Texas. It was in force for 115 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: Jun 9, 2024, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2024, 1:32 AM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
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 04:37 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 11:36 AM CDT, 12 hours 1 minute before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1136 AM CDT Sun Jun 9 2024

TXZ021>044-101645-
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 Sun Jun 9 2024

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

Widespread thunderstorms are expected this evening and tonight
across the South Plains region. Some storms could be strong to
severe and produce hail up to one inch in diameter and wind gusts up
to 70 mph. These storms will also be capable of producing heavy
rainfall resulting in localized flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

Thunderstorms Monday through Tuesday may produce additional heavy
rain and flooding. Some storms may be severe on Monday night.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 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
Jun 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	33 min
Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	2 hr
Jun 9, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran, Terry	67 min
Jun 9, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	4 hr
Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb and 3 more	56 min
Jun 10, 12:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Cottle	93 min
Jun 10, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Castro, Swisher	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Childress, Hall	2 hr
Jun 10, 3:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cottle, King	113 min
Jun 10, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cochran, Hockley	55 min
Jun 10, 6:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Castro	2 hr
Jun 10, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	42 min
Jun 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Terry, Yoakum	30 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.