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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX

May 26, 2026Bailey County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2026, 1:19 AM CDT for Bailey 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
May 26, 2026, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2026, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Bailey County, TX

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 2026-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 200 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 2026-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.5

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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 May 26, 12:28 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:28 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum57 min
May 26, 8:12 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLUBLynn108 min
May 26, 12:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCastro, Parmer56 min
May 26, 12:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBKent32 min
May 26, 12:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBSwisher27 min
May 26, 12:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBFloyd33 min
May 26, 1:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Swisher56 min
May 26, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Motley, Stonewall46 min
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBBriscoe, Swisher119 min
May 26, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens, Kent, King, Stonewall34 min
May 26, 4:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLUBCottle, Motley48 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.