Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1991, 7:04 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1991, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1991, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-060300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH #486 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO... COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE CIMARRON AND BEAVER. IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNION...QUAY..CURRY AND ROOSEVELT. IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH...PARMER... SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER...RANDALL...CASTRO...SWISHER...HANSFORD... HUTCHINSON...CARSON AND ARMSTRONG. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL....DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. EISE
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-060300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH #486 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO... COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE CIMARRON AND TEXAS. IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNION...QUAY..CURRY AND ROOSEVELT. IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH...PARMER... SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER...RANDALL...CASTRO...SWISHER...HANSFORD... HUTCHINSON...CARSON AND ARMSTRONG. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL....DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ...CORRECTION TO ADD TEXAS COUNTY OKLAHOMA IN PLACE OF BEAVER COUNTY... EISE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 15 min |
| Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Jun 6, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Quay | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Curry | 27 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.