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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 24, 2019Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this river flood warning at May 24, 2019, 3:36 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2019, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2019, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Wolf Creek at Lipscomb (LCBT2).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 9.5 ft
Moderate stage: 11.5 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07235000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at May 24, 1:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 1:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 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
May 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	45 min
May 23, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	41 min
May 23, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	51 min
May 23, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	49 min
May 23, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	65 min
May 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	115 min
May 23, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	47 min
May 23, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	28 min
May 23, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	31 min
May 23, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	47 min
May 23, 10:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	53 min
May 23, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	60 min
May 23, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Randall	54 min
May 23, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts	44 min
May 23, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Roberts	53 min
May 23, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	48 min
May 24, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	18 min
May 24, 12:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley, Gray	66 min
May 24, 12:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	36 min
May 24, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	62 min
May 24, 3:17 PM CDT	Flood Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb and 3 more	31 hr
May 23, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	37 min
May 23, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	48 min
May 23, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	28 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.