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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 19885 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1988, 7:46 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1988, 7:46 AM CDT (12:46 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1988, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carson County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Potter 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 269 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1988-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1988-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -142 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro64 min
May 30, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro, Parmer28 min
May 30, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith37 min
May 31, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMADeaf Smith, Moore, Oldham2 hr
May 31, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAParmer2 hr
May 31, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson2 hr
May 31, 5:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAPotter, Randall2 hr
May 31, 5:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro2 hr
May 31, 7:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts4 hr
May 31, 7:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro, Randall4 hr
May 31, 1:18 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth57 min
May 30, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry64 min
May 30, 9:03 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACurry27 min
May 30, 10:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMARoosevelt4 hr
May 30, 11:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARoosevelt29 min
May 31, 2:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt3 hr
May 31, 6:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988

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.