Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 1990, 3:14 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1990, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1990, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hutchinson 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 192015
FFWAMA
TXC233-192215-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
314 PM CDT WED SEP 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...SOUTHWESTERN HUTCHINSON
AT 310PM CDT...FLOODING OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN
SOUTHWESTERN HUTCHINSON COUNTY. SEVERAL CARS WERE REPORTED STALLED ON
HIGHWAY 136 NEAR FRITCH.
RADAR WAS INDICATING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE FRITCH
AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO FORM NEAR FRITCH AND
MOVE OVER THE CITY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT LESS
THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.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, Sep 19, 2:49 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-009-014-021- KSZ003-006-192045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 245 PM CDT WED SEP 19 1990 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ...DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 235 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM STINNETT SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF FRITCH. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF HUTCHINSON COUNTY. PERSONS ON LAKE MEREDITH SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THE SKY AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATEN SKIES APPOARCH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHWEST OF CLARENDON AND NORTHEAST OF TULIA. ELSEWHERE...OTHER LESS INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED OVER THE EAST AND SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT OF ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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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.