Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2001, 8:24 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 111 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
- Jul 15, 2001, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 111 min
- 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 01:27 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, 1.4 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 160130 COR FFWAMA TXC233-160315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 824 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2001 CORRECTED TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 824 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF HUTCHINSON COUNTY. THE HUTCHINSON COUTNY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CENTER REPORTS THAT SOME FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN STINNETT. THESE HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL HUTCHINSON COUNTY AS THE STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST (AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... STINNETT AND PRINGLE DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3581 10161 3568 10112 3603 10110 3605 10153
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 Jul 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2001 SFC TEMPS IN 90S AND SFC DWPTS IN 60S ARE YIELDING SBCAPES 1600 TO 3400 ACRS FCST AREA. CNVGNC IS STRONGEST OVR NWRN ZNS NR SFC TROF... WITH ANOTHER ZONE OF EHHANCED CNVGNC OVR ERN ZNS. LAPSE RATES ARE NOT VERY STEEP. WEAK SHTWV WL BE MOVG ACRS NWRN ZNS SOON. WL KEEP CHC POPS GOING FOR NWRN ZNS 1ST PD...WITH SLGT CHC ELSEWHERE. ON MON...SFC TROF BGNS MOVG SLOWLY EWD. TEMPS EXPCD TO BE SLGTLY WMR AS H5 HGTS BGN TO INCR. LOW POPS WARRANTED MON THRU WED DUE TO MARGINAL INSTBY AND WK CNVGNC. EXTDD LOOKS TO BE VERY WM AND DRY AS H5 RDG RMNS OVR SRN U.S. 03 .A<MA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
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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.