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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. 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
- May 25, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gray County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KAMA 260240 FFWAMA TXC179-260345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 937 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRAY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 932 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF GRAY COUNTY. SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE RAINFALL RATES OVER 1 INCH IN 30 MINUTES WITH THESE STORMS. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... PAMPA DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMIBILES. MOTORISTSE WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER IN UNDERPASSES... INTERSECTIONS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS! LAT...LON 3560 10108 3535 10109 3536 10055 3561 10055
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 40 min |
| May 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 37 min |
| May 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 46 min |
| May 25, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 37 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 46 min |
| May 25, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 41 min |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 24 min |
| May 25, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 50 min |
| May 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 39 min |
| May 25, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 49 min |
| May 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 30 min |
| May 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 62 min |
| May 25, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 43 min |
| May 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 66 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 80 min |
| May 25, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 67 min |
| May 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Carson | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Gray | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.