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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 5, 2014, 11:26 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2014, 11:26 AM CDT (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2014, 9:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 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 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Sep 5, 6:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 6:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Carson, Gray | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 38 min |
| Sep 5, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 34 min |
| Sep 5, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 4:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 117 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.