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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 2025, 3:56 AM CDT for Childress County, Hall 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 26, 2025, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Childress County, TX, Hall County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 669 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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 26, 3:30 AM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:30 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 2:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 234 AM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025 TXZ021>044-270745- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 234 AM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. All severe hazards will be possible with storms early this morning, including very large or giant hail near softball size or larger, and tornadoes. Heavy rainfall is also likely within storms, and a threat for flash flooding will exist from early this morning through the afternoon hours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Daily chances for thunderstorms, including severe weather, will continue each afternoon from Sunday through Wednesday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will likely be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 25, 10:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1004 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0957 PM Tstm Wnd Gst 6 S Anton 33.72N 102.16W
04/25/2025 M64 MPH Hockley TX Mesonet
West Texas Mesonet Report.
&&Local storm report, Apr 26, 12:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1213 AM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1145 PM Hail 8 WNW Sudan 34.11N 102.65W
04/25/2025 M2.00 Inch Bailey TX Public
&&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 | LUB | Cochran, Yoakum | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 64 min |
| Apr 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 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 | 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, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Hockley | 3 hr |
| 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 | LUB | Lamb | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 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 | 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, 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.