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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1990, 9:43 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1990, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lipscomb 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAMA 290244
FFWAMA
TXC295-290545-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
943 PM CDT JUL 28 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...LIPSCOMB
AT 940 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL...OVER LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE
STORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO DUMP HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF LIPSCOMB
FOR THE PAST 2 TO 3 HOURS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN NOTED WITH
THESE STORMS. RADAR DATA ESTIMATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY
FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS OF LIPSCOMB COUNTY. THE LIPSCOMB COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS REPORTED SOME FLOODING IN PROGRESS...ESPECIALLY
IN LOW LYING AREAS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLO
ODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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, Jul 28, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-009-014-021- KSZ003-006-290147- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 745 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 732 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDER- STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE..EXTENDING INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO NEAR ALVA. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY TEXAS.. AND IN ELLIS AND WOODWARD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES..AND POSSIBLE HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE..ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE..BETWEEN DALHART AND PERRYTON. IN NEW MEXICO..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE CLAYTON AREA..SOUTH TO NEAR SANTA ROSA AND FORT SUMNER. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS JUST WEST OF TUCUMCARI..AND NEAR THE CONCHAS DAM AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES [ ..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND POSSIBLE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA dWEATHER RADIO OF LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 69 min |
| Jul 29, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 61 min |
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.