Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 1993, 7:48 AM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1993, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1993, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Briscoe County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 2798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 081247 FFWAMA TXC045-081445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 748 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SOUTHEASTERN BRISCOE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PART OF BRISCOE COUNTY...JUST EAST OF QUITAQUE. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND RAINFALL ESTIMATED AT GREATER THAN 2 INCHES DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF OUTSIDE...MOVE TO ZSHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
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, May 8, 2:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 200 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EAST OF A LINE FROM HANSFORD TO SWISHER...AND TEXAS AND BEAVER COUNTIES OF THE EAST OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. AT 140 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED DURING THE LAST HOUR IN SOUTHERN BRISCO COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. HR
Special weather statement, May 8, 2:08 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 200 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EAST OF A LINE FROM HANSFORD TO SWISHER...AND TEXAS AND BEAVER COUNTIES OF THE EAST OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. AT 140 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HADt DEVELOPED DURING THE LAST HOUR IN SOUTHERN BRISCO COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. HR
Special weather statement, May 8, 5:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-081800- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 527 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 1993 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN HALVES OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE AREA IS TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM MIDLAND...TO AMARILLO...TO 20 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS. EARLY THIS MORNING...A SHARP DRYLINE EXTENDED FROM THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THROUGH THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE TO THE EAST OF AMARILLO. DEWPOINTS EAST OF THE DRYLINE WERE IN THE 60S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 30S WEST OF THE DRYLINE. AT 525 AM...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY TO BRISCOE COUNTY IN THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE DRYLINE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE EASTERN PANHANDLES DURING THE DAY TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN VERY UNSTABLE ALONG AND EAST OF THE DRYLINE. AS AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. BECAUSE OF A FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE...A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN THE EASTERN HALVES OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOFULD BE READY FOR LIKELY ACTIVATION TODAY AND TONIGHT. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORMS OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1 PM. SAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe, Swisher | 67 min |
| May 8, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 67 min |
| May 8, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 58 min |
| May 8, 6:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 2 hr |
| May 8, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 52 min |
| May 8, 7:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hall | 2 hr |
| May 8, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 40 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.