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Red Flag Warning 27, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this red flag warning at May 16, 2026, 12:08 PM CDT for 20 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 17, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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 16, 2026, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
Counties Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 430 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
- 1272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 16, 6:07 AM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 6:07 AM CDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 53 min |
| May 15, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 41 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King and 2 more | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle | 42 min |
| May 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent, Stonewall | 60 min |
| May 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 64 min |
| May 15, 10:32 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 16 more | 22 hr |
| May 16, 12:08 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LUB | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more | 23 hr |
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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.