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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 13, 2003Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 6:33 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree 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 13, 2003, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KAMA 132335
FFWAMA
TXC295-357-140230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
633 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
  SOUTHEASTERN OCHILTREE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 629 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER WOLF CREEK PARK...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF         
  PERRYTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 3637 10072 3608 10069 3608 10035 3637 10035

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KAMA 132359
FFSAMA
TXC295-357-140300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
653 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN LIPSCOMB AND
SOUTHEASTERN OCHILTREE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 3 MILES SOUTH OF WOLF CREEK PARK. RADAR 
ESTIMATED RANFALL AMOUNTS INDICATED 6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN. THE STORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 
MPH. FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION 
OF HIGHWAY 83 AND 23.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 3637 10072 3608 10069 3608 10035 3637 10035

$$
05

000 
WGUS74 KAMA 140102
FFSAMA
TXC295-357-140200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
800 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHWESTERN LIPSCOMB AND 
SOUTHEASTERN OCHILTREE COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED UP 
TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THE 
HEAVY RAINFALL HAS COME TO AN END...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR 
DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE.

IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 3633 10082 3608 10078 3609 10020 3636 10022

$$
05

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	38 min
Jun 13, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	51 min
Jun 13, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	45 min
Jun 13, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	73 min
Jun 13, 4:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	4 hr
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	59 min
Jun 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	58 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	66 min
Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	62 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.