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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 13, 1992Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1992, 11:49 AM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1992, 11:49 AM CDT (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lipscomb County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 5:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	61 min
Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	65 min
Jun 12, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	62 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Castro	75 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Swisher	100 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro	75 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	100 min
Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Briscoe, Swisher	32 min
Jun 12, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	55 min
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	31 min
Jun 12, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	64 min
Jun 12, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	50 min
Jun 13, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	31 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.