Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1991, 6:37 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1991, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1991, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 062339 FFWAMA TXC065-070145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 637 PM CDT FRI SEP 6 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SOUTHERN CARSON COUNTY AT 630 PM CST...AMARILLO RADAR WAS INDICATING A VERY STRONG AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF CONWAY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN AREAS OF CARSON COUNTY WHERE AS MUCH AS FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS. THEREFORE...CONDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY FAVORABLE FOR FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. JMG
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 6, 5:44 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-062345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 542 PM CDT FRI SEP 6 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 528 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ..SOME WITH LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..DEVELOPING OVER MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN TEXAS WAS JUST NORTH OF THE DALHART AREA..NEAR SHAMROCK..AND NEAR CANYON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CIMARRON COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. PREVIOUS RAINS HAD LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED IN SOME AREAS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN MAY RUNOFF QUICKLY AND PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FOOD PRONE AREAS. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OF LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS. GH
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.