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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1996, 9:41 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1996, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1996, 12:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Jun 25, 8:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 8:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 830 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 1996 A LTL MORE QUIET THIS EVE THAN YDA EVE. HWVR...MORE CNVTN NOTED BY AMA WSR-88D ACRS ERN NM MOVG SLOLY EWD. AMA WSR-88D SHOWING OUTFLOW BNDRY MOVG WWD ACRS THE WRN TX PNHDL ATTM WHICH IS BCMG MORE DIFFUSE. AMS IS JUST AS UNSTBL THIS EVE AS YDA EVE WITH LI OF -9...SHOWALTER OF -6...K INDEX OF 44 AND NO CAP. AMS IS ALSO VERY MOIST AS PRECIP WATER THIS EVE OF 1.35 IN. WITH WET-BULB ZERO OF AROUND 11000 FT...FEEL THAT THE THREAT OF HAIL NOT AS HIGH AS 24 HRS AGO. BIGGEST CONCERN IS WITH LCLY HVY RNFL ONCE AGAIN TNGT AS STORM MOTION IS 250 DEG AT ONLY 9 KTS. DO NOT SEE ANY REASON TO CHG PREV FCST. NGM FCSTG NVA ACRS THE PNHDLS BTWN 00Z AND 12Z WHILE ETA FCSTG PVA AS SHRTWV APCHS FM THE E. FEEL THAT THE ETA IS ON TRACK. WITH THIS TROPICAL-LIKE AMS AND INSTBY ALG WITH THE ADVNG SHRTWV...CNVTN COULD FIRE UP AT ANY TIME TNGT PRODUCING VRY HVY RNFL AND PSBL FLOODING. WL NOT MAKE ANY CHGS TO THE PREV FCST. HAVE DECIDED TO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES TNGT UNTIL 12Z WED BECAUSE OF RECENT HVY RNFL AND FLOODING OF THE CANADIAN RVR. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2.5 TO 3 IN ACRS ROBERTS CO IN 1 HR EXCEEDS THE FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE FOR THAT AREA. MORE CNVTN ACRS ERN NM MOVG SLOLY EWD INTO THE PNHDLS ATTM. .AMA... TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TXZ001>020 UNTIL 12Z WED. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR OKZ001>003 UNTIL 12Z WED. SCHNEIDER
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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.