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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1988Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1988, 1:53 AM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1988, 1:53 AM MDT (07:53 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1988, 5:00 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2140 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro64 min
May 30, 8:47 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACastro, Parmer28 min
May 30, 8:53 PM MDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith37 min
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMADeaf Smith, Moore, Oldham2 hr
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAParmer2 hr
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson2 hr
May 31, 4:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAPotter, Randall2 hr
May 31, 4:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro2 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts4 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro, Randall4 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACarson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter4 hr
May 31, 12:18 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth57 min
May 30, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry64 min
May 30, 8:03 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACurry27 min
May 30, 9:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMARoosevelt4 hr
May 30, 10:16 PM MDTTornado WarningAMARoosevelt29 min
May 31, 5:07 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt5 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.