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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LUB | Lynn | 108 min |
| May 26, 12:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Castro, Parmer | 56 min |
| May 26, 12:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Kent | 32 min |
| May 26, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Swisher | 27 min |
| May 26, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Floyd | 33 min |
| May 26, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Swisher | 56 min |
| May 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Motley, Stonewall | 46 min |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 119 min |
| May 26, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 48 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.