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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 10, 2023Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2023, 3:15 AM CDT for Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 10, 2023, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2023, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 270 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: 1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 9, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 10:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 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
Jun 9, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	30 min
Jun 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	33 min
Jun 10, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	53 min
Jun 10, 3:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray, Wheeler	4 hr
Jun 10, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	43 min
Jun 10, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	68 min
Jun 10, 5:42 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	AMA	Wheeler	8 hr
Jun 10, 1:47 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	AMA	Wheeler	12 hr
Jun 10, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	45 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	63 min
Jun 9, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	25 min
Jun 9, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	34 min
Jun 9, 10:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	32 min
Jun 9, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	31 min
Jun 9, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.