Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

Issued

Jun 24, 1996, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)

Expired

Jun 24, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

115 min

Issued by

NWS Amarillo, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Potter County, TX

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 250036
FFWAMA
TXC375-250230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
735 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING  EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...NORTHERN POTTER COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM CDT AMARILLO WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 3 TO 4
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FELL ALONG HIGHWAY 287 BETWEEN MASTERSON AND
PUENTE.  THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS
DRIFTING OFF TO THE EAST AT 5 MPH WITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OVER NORTHERN POTTER COUNTY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY
OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS IN THE WATER...
ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.  RAPIDLY RISING
WATER CAN ENGULF A VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS AND SWEEP THEM AWAY.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 24, 3:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
310 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996

CONVECTION FIRING ACRS THE TX/OK PNHDLS ATTM.  DEW POINTS ARE IN
THE UPR 50S TO MID 60S MOST AREAS WITH SFC TEMPS IN THE 90S.  THE
MODIFIED AMA 12Z SOUNDING WITH THESE FIGURES INDICATES A CAPE
AROUND 3500 J/KG...SO AMS IS SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE.  EXPECT TSTMS TO
CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING BUT BELIEVE ACTIVITY SHOULD END BEFORE
MIDNIGHT AS AMS STABILIZES AND SINCE NO SHRTWV ENERGY EXPECTED
AFT THAT POINT.  PRECIPITABLE WATER CONTENT IS ABOUT 1 INCH...
WHICH IS NOT REALLY HIGH.  HWVR...FLO ALOFT IS WEAK SO SLOW
STORMS MOVEMENT COULD RESULT IN ISOL HEAVY RAINFALL.  WILL NOT
MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN ZONE FCST AT THIS POINT SINCE IT SHOULD BE
ISOL.  WILL USE THE SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR THIS INSTEAD.

HEIGHTS WILL CONT RISE OVR THE AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
HWVR...LO LVL FLO REMAINS S TO SE AND SHOULD SUSTAIN DEW POINTS
IN THE 50S AND 60S.  WITH DAYTIME HEAT...AMS WILL AGAIN BECOME
UNSTABLE TUE AND WED AFTN AND EVES.  THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT THO
WILL BE INCRG CAP STRENGTH AND ANY SUBSIDENCE UNDER THE BLDG RDG.
FOR THIS REASON...WILL ONLY FCST A SLIGHT CHC OF TSTMS.

NGM H8 FCSTD TEMPS COOLER THAN ETA AND AVN.  THIS IS REFLECTED IN
THE COOLER NGM-MOS.  UNLESS SGFNT CLOUD COVER DVLPS EARLY ENUF IN
THE DAY ON TUE AND WED...BLV PERSISTENCE WILL PREVAIL AND THE
WARMER AVN GUIDANCE WILL VERIFY BETTER.

THANKS LBB/OUN/DDC FOR THE COORDINATION.

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

SP

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.