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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 4, 1992Moore County, Potter County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1992, 11:59 PM CDT for Moore County, Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1992, 11:59 PM CDT (04:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1992, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Moore County, TX, Potter County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1541 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
7.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 050501
FFWAMA
TXC341-375-050800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1159 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING   EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...MOORE COUNTY...POTTER COUNTY
 
AT 1158 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERHEAVY RAINFALL IN MOORE AND NORTHERN POTTER COUNTIES.
 
MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH-SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
REPORTS OF FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS...STREETS...AND ROADS HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED ACROSS MUCH OF MOORE COUNTY TONIGHT.
 
 
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.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

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 4, 6:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-
KSZ003-006-050045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
645 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH HALF
   OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INCLUDING POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES...

AT 635 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK. THE STRONGEST STORM WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS DETECTED OVER NORTHERN COCHRAN COUNTY JUST
NORTHWEST OF MORTON WITH ANOTHER STRONG STORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF
NEEDMORE IN BAILEY COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AS WELL VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. OTHER
STORMS IN THIS AREA HAD WEAKENED DURING THE PAST HOUR.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

ELSEWHERE...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME
SOUTHEAST COLORADO INTO MAINLY UNION COUNTY OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO.
THE STRONGEST STORM WAS SHOWN NEAR PASAMONTE. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS
WAS ALSO TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NAyTIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

TG
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-050040-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
722 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS MOORE COUNTY
   NORTH OF DUMAS TEXAS...

AT 715 PM CDT...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAINFALL
OVER MOORE COUNTY OF THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM
HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST 20 MINUTES JUST NORTH OF DUMAS.

MOVMENT RWAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE CITY OF DUMAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THIS STORM AS
IT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS MOORE COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-050200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
735 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT THIS EVENING FOR
   ARMSTRONG..DONLEY..BRISCOE..HALL AND CHILDRESS COUNTIES...

THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER. HOWEVER...POTTER..RANDALL..
OLDHAM..DEAF SMITH..PARMER..CASTRO..AND SWISHER COUNTIES IN THE
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
UNTIL 9 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING. THE WATCH ALSO CONTINUES FOR MUCH
OF THE WESTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS.

LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS
ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

TG
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-
KSZ003-006-050145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
753 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST
   HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...

AT 740 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER
NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY NEAR DUMAS AND BRYDEN. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS PRODUCING PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL
HAIL.  PERSONS IN MOORE COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THIS
STORM IT MOVES SOUTH AT 10 MPH ACROSS THE COUNTY. BECAUSE OF THE
STORMS SLOW MOVEMENT...THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME MINOR FLOODING OF
LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS EXSISTS.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN NORTHEASTERN
NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS UNION AND HARDING COUNTIES
FROM AROUND PASAMONTE SOUTH TO MOSQUERO.
^
MOVEMENT WAS ALSO TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore68 min
Jun 4, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore42 min
Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore35 min
Jun 4, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman41 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore30 min
Jun 4, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore69 min
Jun 4, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Sherman41 min
Jun 4, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore55 min
Jun 4, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter55 min
Jun 4, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter57 min
Jun 5, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore64 min
Jun 5, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson55 min
Jun 5, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter61 min
Jun 5, 1:07 AM CDTTornado WarningAMAPotter38 min
Jun 5, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall62 min
Jun 5, 1:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACarson3 hr
Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDTTornado WarningAMAPotter18 min
Jun 5, 2:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith42 min
Jun 5, 2:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMARandall3 hr
Jun 5, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall, Swisher50 min
Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAArmstrong, Donley3 hr
Jun 5, 2:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMASwisher3 hr
Jun 5, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam42 min
Jun 5, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam57 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley47 min
Jun 5, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall48 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.