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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 7, 1993Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1993, 8:41 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1993, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1993, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hutchinson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 251 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3772 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1993-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
3772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
9.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson, Moore65 min
Jul 7, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro30 min
Jul 7, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro64 min
Jul 7, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson52 min
Jul 7, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts39 min
Jul 7, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro46 min
Jul 7, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill50 min

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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.