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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 25, 2025Hockley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 2025, 9:56 PM CDT for Hockley 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: Apr 25, 2025, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Hockley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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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 Apr 25, 9:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 9:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 1:59 PM CDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
159 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

TXZ021>044-261900-
Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd-
Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum-
Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall-
159 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

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

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

A Tornado Watch is in effect through 10 PM for the South Plains, far
southern Texas Panhandle, and the central and northern South Plains.

Severe thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon
initially near the Texas-New Mexico state line and across portions
of the Rolling Plains. Storms will then expand in coverage across the
rest of the Caprock and move slowly southeastward across the entire
area this evening through tonight.

All severe hazards will be possible with these storms, including
very large or giant hail near softball size or larger, damaging wind
gusts up to 75 mph, and tornadoes. Heavy rainfall is also likely
within severe storms, and a threat for flash flooding will exist
from
late this afternoon through the overnight hours.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

Daily chances for thunderstorms, including severe weather, will
continue each afternoon from Saturday through Wednesday. Heavy rain
and flooding are possible on Saturday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be needed.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 7:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
822 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0820 PM     Hail             1 N Smyer               33.60N 102.16W
04/25/2025  M2.00 Inch       Hockley            TX   Public

            Damage to houses. Possible wind driven hail.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 25, 8:59 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
859 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0851 PM     Flash Flood      3 N Smyer               33.62N 102.18W
04/25/2025                   Hockley            TX   Public

            Report from mPING: Street/road flooding;
            Street/road closed; Vehicles stranded.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 25, 9:23 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
923 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0920 PM     Hail             Muleshoe                34.23N 102.73W
04/25/2025  M1.75 Inch       Bailey             TX   Broadcast Media

            Relayed public report.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	75 min
Apr 25, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Yoakum	56 min
Apr 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	64 min
Apr 25, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Lamb	54 min
Apr 25, 8:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Hockley	3 hr
Apr 25, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	33 min
Apr 25, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Castro, Lamb, Parmer	63 min
Apr 25, 9:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Parmer	2 hr
Apr 25, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	39 min
Apr 25, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	48 min
Apr 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	46 min
Apr 25, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	24 min
Apr 25, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	53 min
Apr 26, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lamb	54 min
Apr 26, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Castro, Lamb	56 min
Apr 26, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Hale, Lamb	61 min
Apr 26, 1:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Hale, Lamb	26 min
Apr 26, 1:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	23 min
Apr 26, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall, Motley	62 min
Apr 26, 2:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	23 min
Apr 26, 2:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	41 min
Apr 26, 2:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Castro, Lamb	2 hr
Apr 26, 2:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Castro	52 min
Apr 26, 3:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Castro	24 min
Apr 26, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	33 min
Apr 26, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Childress, Hall	3 hr
Apr 26, 7:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Childress, Hall	8 hr
Apr 26, 9:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	75 min
Apr 26, 11:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LUB	Childress	3 hr
Apr 26, 11:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	57 min
Apr 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Cottle	29 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.