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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2006, 4:51 AM CDT for Gray 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2006, 4:51 AM CDT (09:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2006, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gray County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 790 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 22, 4:45 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 4:45 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 1:00 PM CDT, 15 hours 51 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT MON AUG 21 2006 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-221100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CDT MON AUG 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN...RESULTING IN THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GLENRIO...TO DUMAS AND CACTUS...TO CANADIAN ...UNTIL 4 AM TUESDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT....AS WELL AS THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS MAY BE CALLED UPON FOR FLOOD REPORTS. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 22, 12:06 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 10:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 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.