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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 4, 2024Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2024, 7:26 PM CDT for Stonewall 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 4, 2024, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2024, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Stonewall County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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, 0.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2024-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 230 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 00:00Z on 2024-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 7:03 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBKent, Stonewall2 hr
May 5, 1:54 PM CDTRed Flag WarningLUBBailey, Castro, Hale, Lamb, Parmer, Swisher31 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.