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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 6, 2025Lubbock County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2025, 2:20 AM CDT for Lubbock County, Texas. It was in force for 85 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
May 6, 2025, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2025, 3:45 AM CDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Lubbock County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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 2025-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 769 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 2025-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 279 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
769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
544 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
13.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 1:30 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHockley, Lubbock2 hr
May 6, 2:38 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBHale, Lamb2 hr
May 6, 4:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro24 min
May 6, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBHockley31 min
May 6, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro29 min
May 6, 5:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLamb28 min
May 6, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLubbock33 min
May 6, 5:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBLamb32 min
May 6, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro25 min
May 6, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBParmer31 min
May 6, 5:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro24 min
May 6, 6:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro34 min
May 6, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher59 min
May 6, 6:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCrosby26 min
May 6, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock56 min
May 6, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale35 min
May 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Swisher56 min

Nearby

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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.