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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1995Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 2:02 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Carson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 589 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 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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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.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 30, 8:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
847 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995

BUSY NIGHT AT THE OFFICE.  WILL TRY TO CLEAN THINGS UP AS TIME
ALLOWS.  SEVERE WEATHER NOW MOVING INTO THE EASTERN COUNTIES.

.AMA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TNGT FOR ZONES 011>020.
.OK...NONE.

COLTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson69 min
May 30, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall67 min
May 30, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter28 min
May 30, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford62 min
May 30, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong68 min
May 30, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray69 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley58 min
May 30, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford59 min
May 30, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree68 min
May 30, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher65 min
May 31, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith38 min
May 31, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall46 min
May 31, 5:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher59 min
May 31, 7:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher43 min
May 31, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong57 min
May 31, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray, Wheeler66 min
May 31, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley37 min
May 31, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth63 min
May 31, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley47 min
May 31, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley, Hall28 min
May 31, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe, Hall56 min
May 31, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall59 min
May 31, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.