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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 14, 1999Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1999-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1999-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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 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.

SP

In 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 8:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAMoore4 hr

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.