Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 2, 1986, 9:18 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1986, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 1986, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Briscoe County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 5:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 535 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 544 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM MDT FOR CURRY... ROOSEVELT...AND QUAY COUNTIES OF EAST NEW MEXICO... AT 528 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDER STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHWEST OF CHILDRESS...AND BETWEEN CLARENDON AND SILVERTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER... AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 7:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 740 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 544 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM MDT FOR CURRY... ROOSEVELT...AND QUAY COUNTIES OF EAST NEW MEXICO... AT 730 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDER STORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...EXTENDING INTO WEST OKLAHOMA...AND INTO THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN CHILDRESS AND HALL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE WATCH AREAS ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADIC ACTIVITY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 3 hr |
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.