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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 22, 2014Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT for Lipscomb 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 22, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2014, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

854 
WGUS54 KAMA 230015
FFWAMA
TXC295-230300-
/O.NEW.KAMA.FF.W.0011.140623T0015Z-140623T0300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
715 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED AN
  AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOLLETT TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  BOOKER. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN
  OVER PARTS OF THE WARNED AREA IN THE PAST HOUR WITH ADDITIONAL
  HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR. WHILE
  PRECIPITATION MAY TAPER OFF IN SOME AREAS DURING THE WARNING
  PERIOD...IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR ANY HIGH WATER TO RUNOFF.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LIPSCOMB...           HIGGINS...            FOLLETT...
  DARROUZETT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPORT FLOODING...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0
6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1.

&&

LAT...LON 3606 10055 3650 10053 3650 10000 3650 9999
      3606 10000

$$

JC

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 22, 7:04 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:04 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
704 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

.AVIATION...
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY AT SOME DISTANCE FROM ALL
TERMINALS.  THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO EXPECTED
TO CONSOLIDATE INTO A LARGE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX...AND MOVE SOUTHEAST
INTO FORECAST AREA.  THUS...VCTS WILL BE CARRIED THROUGH MOST OF THE
EVENING.  THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOWS WILL CAUSE VARIABILITY IN SURFACE
WIND DIRECTIONS AND SPEEDS.  MVFR CEILINGS EXPECTED AFTER 06Z MONDAY.
NORTHEAST SURFACE WINDS EXPECTED AFTER SUNRISE MONDAY.  AMENDMENTS
WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED AS EVENTS UNFOLD THIS EVENING.

COCKRELL

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 436 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014/

..HEAVY RAIN/SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

DISCUSSION...

THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS FORECAST WILL BE ON CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED ALREADY FOR A MAJORITY OF THE PANHANDLES
EXCLUDING FAR SOUTH AND SW AREAS.

MLCAPE VALUES OF 3000 J/KG AND EFFECTIVE SHEAR OF 40 KTS DUE TO A
WEAK BUT NICELY VEERING WIND PROFILE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT
ORGANIZED CONVECTION. INITIAL CELLS THIS AFTERNOON WILL HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO BE SUPERCELLULAR WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE
MAIN THREATS. LATER THIS EVENING...EXPECT CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS
IN ERN CO AND SWRN KS TO BEGIN TO INTERACT AND GROW UPSCALE TO A
FORWARD PROPAGATING, STRONG WIND PRODUCING MCS AIDED BY EXPECTED
COLD POOL DEVELOPMENT. 850-300 MEAN WINDS AND CORFIDI VECTORS
SUGGEST RAPID FORWARD SPEED INTO THE EASTERN PANHANDLES. LIFTING ON
THE LEADING EDGE SHOULD BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT IN OUR AREA TO KEEP
THE SYSTEM PROPAGATING SE. ON THE WRN EDGE OF THE EXPECTED MCS...
OUTFLOW INTERACTION WITH A DEVELOPING LOW LVL JET COULD RESULT IN
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FURTHER WEST TOWARD AMARILLO LATE
THIS EVENING/VERY EARLY MON MORNING. OVERALL BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS
AND SVR WX WILL BE IN THE ERN HALF OF THE PANHANDLES. FORECAST
SOUNDINGS INDICATE HEAVY RAIN AS A CERTAINTY WITH STORMS BUT HAVE
REFRAINED FROM ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH DUE TO EXPECTED RAPID
FORWARD MOTION OF THE MAIN MCS.

STORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTO AT LEAST THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK...
BUT A LOT WILL DEPEND ON HOW FAR SOUTH THE COLD FRONT SURGES TONIGHT
AND WHAT KIND OF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT WE GET ALONG IT LATE TONIGHT
AND/OR TOMORROW. THINK THERE WILL BE SOME NWD MIXING OF THE FRONT
TOMORROW AND ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS WILL DEFINITELY BE POSSIBLE
ALONG THIS BOUNDARY MON EVENING SO WENT AHEAD AND INCREASED POPS IN
THE SW TX PANHANDLE FOR MON NIGHT.

UNCERTAINTY CONTINUES TO BE HIGH LATER IN THE PERIOD AS MED RANGE
MODELS VARY WILDLY ON THE OVERALL UPR PATTERN.

TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY REMAIN WITHIN 5-10 DEGREES OF NORMAL.

SIMPSON

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO TX                64  83  64  83  64 /  40  20  40  20  30
BEAVER OK                  66  87  65  87  65 /  90  20  30  20  40
BOISE CITY OK              62  82  61  85  62 /  50  20  40  20  30
BORGER TX                  67  86  67  86  66 /  60  20  40  20  30
BOYS RANCH TX              65  86  65  88  66 /  30  20  40  20  30
CANYON TX                  63  84  64  84  64 /  40  30  40  20  20
CLARENDON TX               66  85  66  84  66 /  50  30  40  20  30
DALHART TX                 61  83  61  85  63 /  40  20  40  20  30
GUYMON OK                  65  85  65  86  64 /  70  20  30  20  40
HEREFORD TX                63  84  63  84  63 /  30  30  40  20  20
LIPSCOMB TX                66  85  65  86  66 /  80  20  30  20  40
PAMPA TX                   64  83  64  83  65 /  70  20  40  20  30
SHAMROCK TX                66  86  66  85  66 /  70  30  30  20  30
WELLINGTON TX              68  88  68  86  68 /  60  30  30  20  30

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

03/13

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 4:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
402 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-231200-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
402 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PANHANDLES THIS
AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH
LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH THE
PRIMARY HAZARDS.

TONIGHT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT MUCH OF THE REST OF THE
PANHANDLES WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW STORMS THAT
DEVELOP DURING THIS TIME PERIOD WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME
STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD ALSO LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR
FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE TEXAS
AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE
LIMITED ACTIVATION AT TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
544 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0422 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 E KNOWLES             36.87N 100.17W
06/22/2014                   BEAVER             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FIVE TELEPHONE LINES BLOWN DOWN IN KNOWLES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400468

14

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
550 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0548 PM     FLASH FLOOD      2 S KNOWLES             36.84N 100.19W
06/22/2014                   BEAVER             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WATER COVERING COUNTY ROADS SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF
            KNOWLES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400469

14

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
551 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0549 PM     FLASH FLOOD      2 S KNOWLES             36.84N 100.19W
06/22/2014                   BEAVER             OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

            WATER COVERING COUNTY ROADS SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF
            KNOWLES.

&&

CORRECTED EVENT TIME

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400469

14

Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:19 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
619 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0610 PM     TSTM WND GST     8 W SLAPOUT             36.60N 100.26W
06/22/2014  M66 MPH          BEAVER             OK   MESONET

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400470

COCKRELL

Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:23 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
623 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0537 PM     TORNADO          10 WNW SLAPOUT          36.67N 100.28W
06/22/2014                   BEAVER             OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BRIEF 15 TO 20 SECOND TORNADO IN OPEN FIELD. NO DAMAGE
            OBSERVED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400471

14

Local storm report, Jun 22, 7:08 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
708 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0705 PM     HAIL             DARROUZETT              36.45N 100.33W
06/22/2014  E1.75 INCH       LIPSCOMB           TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1400472

14

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	24 min
Jun 22, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	35 min
Jun 22, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	63 min
Jun 22, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
Jun 22, 8:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	41 min
Jun 22, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	53 min
Jun 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Ochiltree, Roberts	46 min
Jun 22, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	2 hr
Jun 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	44 min
Jun 22, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	67 min
Jun 22, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Moore	47 min
Jun 22, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	59 min
Jun 22, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	41 min
Jun 22, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham and 1 more	59 min
Jun 22, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Oldham, Potter, Roberts	42 min
Jun 22, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	63 min
Jun 22, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	96 min
Jun 22, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 1 more	59 min
Jun 22, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Randall	49 min
Jun 22, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts, Wheeler	59 min
Jun 22, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Potter, Randall	66 min
Jun 22, 11:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	3 hr
Jun 22, 11:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 22, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	45 min
Jun 22, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Randall and 1 more	96 min
Jun 23, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	40 min
Jun 23, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	66 min
Jun 23, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	41 min
Jun 23, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	48 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.