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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 7:16 PM CDT for Hemphill 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2003, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hemphill County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KAMA 140039 CCA FFWAMA TXC211-140300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 716 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HEMPHILL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CANADIAN * UNTIL 10 PM CDT * AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 3 MILES NORTH OF CANADIAN...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GLAZIER AND LAKE MARVIN IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. LAT...LON 3604 10053 3565 10053 3565 10001 3605 10003 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KAMA 140126 FFSAMA TXC211-140300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 825 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HEMPHILL COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 823 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF HEMPHILL COUNTY. THE COMPLEX OF STORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. LAT...LON 3599 10053 3566 10051 3566 10003 3604 10008 $$ ANDRADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Oldham | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 62 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.