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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2003, 7:09 PM CDT for Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2003, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 729 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KAMA 060010 FFWAMA TXC381-060215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 709 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANDALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CANYON * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 705 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CANYON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CANYON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. FLOODING IN HUSLEY HILLS IN NORTHWEST CANYON AND ALSO AT PALO DURO CANYON STATE PARK WILL BE LIKELY WITH THE HEAVY RAIN. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LAKE TANGLEWOOD...PALO DURO CANYON AND UMBARGER MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER AT UNDERPASSES... INTERSECTIONS...DRAINAGE DITCHES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. RAPIDLY RISING WATER CAN QUICKLY MAKE LOW WATER CROSSINGS IMPASSABLE. CAMPERS...HIKERS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW LAT...LON 3516 10213 3478 10212 3479 10166 3517 10167 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KAMA 060027 FFSAMA TXC381-060215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 724 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR RANDALL COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALO DURO CANYON. THE STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NUMEROUS STREET FLOODING AND NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED IN CANYON AND HUNSLEY HILLS. THE METHODIST CHURCH IN CANYON HAD 22 INCHES OF WATER STANDING. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISING WATER AT UNDERPASSES... INTERSECTIONS...DRAINAGE DITCHES AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. RAPIDLY RISING WATER CAN QUICKLY MAKE LOW WATER CROSSINGS IMPASSABLE. CAMPERS...HIKERS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW LAT...LON 3516 10214 3478 10206 3479 10167 3515 10166 $$
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 Jun 5, 4:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 400 PM CDT THU 05 JUN 2003 ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. MAIN CONCENTRATION WILL OCCUR DURING THE EVENING THEN MOVING SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT. MOISTURE DEPTH AND STORM SPEEDS SUPPORT HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES INTO TONIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHES MOISTURE SOUTH OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY...BUT RETURN FLOW WILL REPLENISH LOW LEVELS BY SATURDAY WHEN THE NEXT FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE PANHANDLES. RELATIVELY DRY CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. FCSTID = 08 AMARILLO 51 76 54 77 / 100 10 20 20 BEAVER 49 75 56 74 / 90 00 20 20 BOISE CITY 47 75 52 72 / 80 00 20 20 BORGER 51 76 55 76 / 90 10 20 20 BOYS RANCH 49 76 54 76 / 90 10 20 20 CANYON 51 77 54 78 / 100 10 20 20 CLARENDON 56 77 57 78 / 100 10 20 20 DALHART 47 76 52 74 / 90 00 20 20 GUYMON 48 75 54 73 / 90 00 20 20 HEREFORD 51 77 53 78 / 100 10 20 20 LIPSCOMB 53 76 56 76 / 100 10 20 20 PAMPA 53 76 55 77 / 100 10 20 20 SHAMROCK 58 77 57 78 / 100 10 20 20 WELLINGTON 59 77 58 78 / 100 10 20 20 .AMA... TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-061100- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM TEXLINE...TO DUMAS...TO JUST EAST OF AMARILLO. THE MAIN THREAT IN THIS AREA WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY IN THE EVENT...SO TORNADOES ARE A THREAT AS WELL. AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...AND NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...WILL HELP FOCUS ACTIVITY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT HOURS. ELSEWHERE...GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS...SOME CONTAINING HEAVY RAINFALL...WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN FOR SATURDAY ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PERSIST THROUGH SUNDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF BECOMING SEVERE...AS WELL THE CONTINUED POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TODAY...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY AGAIN BE NECESSARY ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. FOX
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
412 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM STRATFORD TX 65 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA.
0406 PM STRATFORD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY SHERMAN
COUNTY SO.Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
536 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM STRATFORD TX 65 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA.
0406 PM STRATFORD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY SHERMAN
COUNTY SO.
0527 PM 6S SPEARMAN TX WIND DAMAGE
06/05/03 HANSFORD POWERLINES DOWN REPORTED
BY HANSFORD COUNTY SO.Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:25 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
625 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM STRATFORD TX 65 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA.
0406 PM STRATFORD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY SHERMAN
COUNTY SO.
0527 PM 6S SPEARMAN TX WIND DAMAGE
06/05/03 HANSFORD POWERLINES DOWN REPORTED
BY HANSFORD COUNTY SO.
0602 PM 8SE VEGA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 OLDHAM REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0622 PM WILDORADO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 OLDHAM REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:52 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
652 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0402 PM STRATFORD TX 65 MPH WIND GUST
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY LOCAL MEDIA.
0406 PM STRATFORD TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY SHERMAN
COUNTY SO.
0527 PM 6S SPEARMAN TX WIND DAMAGE
06/05/03 HANSFORD POWERLINES DOWN REPORTED
BY HANSFORD COUNTY SO.
0602 PM 8SE VEGA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 OLDHAM REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0620 PM WILDORADO TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 OLDHAM HAIL COVERED THE GROUND.
HOUSE WINDOWS BROKEN.
0622 PM WILDORADO TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 OLDHAM REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0634 PM 10SW AMARILLO TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 POTTER REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0645 PM 5N BUFFALO LAKE TX 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 RANDALL REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0649 PM 3N DAWN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/03 DEAF SMITH REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 55 min |
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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.