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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 24, 2019Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood watch at Aug 24, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Aug 24, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 24, 2019, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 24, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Aug 25, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Flood severity: None

Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

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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 Aug 24, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Moore	64 min
Aug 23, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter	65 min
Aug 23, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	78 min
Aug 23, 9:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Randall, Roberts	64 min
Aug 23, 9:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	3 hr
Aug 23, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	53 min
Aug 23, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler	77 min
Aug 23, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Donley, Gray	59 min
Aug 23, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler	62 min
Aug 24, 2:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	3 hr
Aug 23, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	42 min
Aug 23, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	52 min
Aug 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Beaver	3 hr
Aug 23, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	65 min
Aug 23, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	38 min
Aug 23, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	45 min
Aug 23, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver	3 hr
Aug 23, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	48 min
Aug 24, 12:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver	3 hr
Aug 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	73 min
Aug 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	46 min
Aug 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.