Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1989, 9:56 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1989, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1989, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carson 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAMA 170258
FFWAMA
TXC065-170400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
956 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...CARSON
AT 955 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST
CARSON COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM
HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REPORTS OF FLOODING OVER ROADWAYS
AND LOW LYING AREAS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.
PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS SERIOUS SITUATION AND KEEP ALERT.
AVOID DRIVING INTO FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODU+CE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| May 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 60 min |
| May 16, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 62 min |
| May 16, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 64 min |
| May 17, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 64 min |
| May 17, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 62 min |
| May 17, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 59 min |
| May 17, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 63 min |
| May 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter | 59 min |
| May 17, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall, Swisher | 69 min |
| May 17, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 65 min |
| May 17, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 67 min |
| May 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Childress | 29 min |
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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.