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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2026, 4:38 PM CDT for Lynn County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 18, 2026, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2026, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lynn County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Lubbock TX 345 AM CDT Sat Jul 18 2026 TXZ021>044-190845- Parmer-Castro-Swisher-Briscoe-Hall-Childress-Bailey-Lamb-Hale-Floyd- Motley-Cottle-Cochran-Hockley-Lubbock-Crosby-Dickens-King-Yoakum- Terry-Lynn-Garza-Kent-Stonewall- 345 AM CDT Sat Jul 18 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the South Plains, Rolling Plains, and the far Southern Texas Panhandle. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few isolated to scattered showers will linger across areas On the Caprock this morning, decreasing in coverage by late morning. A secondary chance for showers and storms will develop Saturday afternoon and evening, tracking southward through the Caprock regions. The severe threat remains low with the primary hazard being locally heavy rainfall and a few localized stronger wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Low chances for thunderstorms return to areas primarily west of the I-27 corridor Sunday afternoon. Hot temperatures return to the Caprock regions by mid-week next week, with highs climbing near Heat Advisory thresholds.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:04 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 5:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Lynn | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Childress | 34 min |
| Jul 18, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Childress | 78 min |
| Jul 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Garza | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Parmer | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle | 28 min |
| Jul 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Parmer | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cochran | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 6:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 71 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.