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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 15, 1992, 7:03 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1992, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hutchinson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 160006 FFWAMA TXC233-160200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 703 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...HUTCHINSON COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT...AMARILLO WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR FRITCH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN FRITCH AT 642 PM CDT. LITTLE MOVEMENT HAS OCCURRED...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS A RESULT. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF STINNETT. THIS STORM ALSO SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT AND HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Apr 15, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 545 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO... AT 534 PM CDT AMARILLO WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY SILVERTON...KRESS... TO 25 MILES NORTH OF LUBBOCK. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN PLAINVIEW. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING NEAR CLARENDON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTH OF AMARILLO. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION TO HEADING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 545 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO... AT 534 PM CDT AMARILLO WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY SILVERTON...KRESS... TO 25 MILES NORTH OF LUBBOCK. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN PLAINVIEW. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURRING NEAR CLARENDON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST THROUGH NORTH OF AMARILLO. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 117 min |
| Apr 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Potter | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe, Hall | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 1:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 69 min |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 58 min |
| Apr 16, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 59 min |
| Apr 16, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 25 min |
| Apr 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 25 min |
| Apr 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 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.