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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2000, 9:40 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2000, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hutchinson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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 77 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KAMA 240240 FFWAMA TXC233-240530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 940 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 936 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF HUTCHINSON COUNTY. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS THAT F.M. ROAD 2171 WAS FLOODED EAST OF BORGER...AT A LOCATION 3/4 MILE OFF HIGHWAY 152. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... STINNETT...SANFORD...PRINGLE AND BORGER DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMIBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3604 10161 3564 10161 3565 10111 3603 10111
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 Oct 23, 9:15 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 9:15 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 915 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000 EXPANDED FLASH FLOOD WATCH 30 SM EWD ACRS TX PNHDL...NOW INCLUDING WRN 2/3 OF TX AND OK PNHDLS. WATER VAPOR INDCS SHTWV APCHG WRN ZNS...SO ADDITIONAL CNVTN IS EXPCD TNGT...IN SPITE OF TEMPORARY CLRG OCRG ATTM JUST W OF AMA. BROKEN LINE OF TSTMS RUNNING N-S OVR TX PNHDL (E OF AMA) HAS BEEN SLOW TO MOV...AND THIS WAS RATIONALE FOR EXTDG FFA EWD. ISSUED UPDT TO ZONES ERYR WHICH ALSO INCLUDED 1ST PD ADJUSTMENT TO WNDS AND TEMPS ACRS NRN ZNS. NO CHANGES TO LATER PDS. 03 .AMA... TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ZONES 1 2 3 6 7 8 11 12 13 16 17 18. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ZONES 1 2. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 23, 5:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
539 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM 5 SE AMARILLO TX TORNADO
10/23/00 RANDALL DAMAGE TO BARN REPORTED BY
AMA EOC
0230 PM 4 E AMARILLO TX TORNADO
10/23/00 POTTER BRIEF TOUCHDOWN SEEN BY
NWS EMPLOYEES
0315 PM BOOTLEG TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
10/23/00 DEAF SMITH REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
JWLocal storm report, Oct 23, 9:30 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
930 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM 5 SE AMARILLO TX TORNADO
10/23/00 RANDALL DAMAGE TO BARN REPORTED BY
AMA EOC
0230 PM 4 E AMARILLO TX TORNADO
10/23/00 POTTER BRIEF TOUCHDOWN SEEN BY
NWS EMPLOYEES
0315 PM BOOTLEG TX 1.50 INCH HAIL
10/23/00 DEAF SMITH REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
0645 PM VEGA TX FLOOD
10/23/00 OLDHAM .5 MILES EAST OF INTERSECTION
385 AND 101. WATER OVER ROAD.
REPORTED BY OLDHAM COUNTY SO.
0729 PM VEGA TX FLOOD
10/23/00 OLDHAM SERVICE ROAD AT MILE MARKER 23
SOUTH OF I-40 IS UNDER WATER.
R:EPORTED BY OLDHAM COUNTY SO.
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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.