Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 14, 1999, 3:14 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 14, 1999, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 14, 11:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 11:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1142 AM CDT WED APR 14 1999
UPGRADED THE WIND ADVRY TO HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE FAR WRN ZONES OF
THE TX AND OK PNHDLS. SFC OBS AT DHT AND TCC SHOWING WINDS IN
WARNING RANGE. CAO WAS JUST SHY. THE REMAINDER OF THE PNHDLS WILL
RMN UNDER THE WIND ADVRY AS RAIN SHIELD IS HELPING TO HINDER THE
WIND SPEEDS.
.AMA...
TX...HIGH WIND WARNING TIL 6 PM CDT ZONES 001-006-011-016.
WIND ADVRY TIL 6 PM CDT TDA ZONES 002>005-007>010-012>015-
017>020.
OK...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM CDT ZONE 1
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CDT TODAY FOR ZONES 002-003.
SPIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-150000- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 101 PM CDT WED APR 14 1999 A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT AREAS OF THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. THE AREA WILL INCLUDE A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST INTO NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PUSH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN INTO THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. HOWEVER... A LACK OF UNSTABLE AIR WILL KEEP ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. BROYLES
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-150000- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 101 PM CDT WED APR 14 1999 A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT AREAS OF THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. THE AREA WILL INCLUDE A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST INTO NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PUSH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN INTO THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. HOWEVER... A LACK OF UNSTABLE AIR WILL KEEP ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. BROYLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Moore | 4 hr |
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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.