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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 12, 2025Carson County, Hutchinson County, Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2025, 12:05 AM CDT for Carson County, Hutchinson County, Moore 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: Jul 12, 2025, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2025, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Carson County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 1969 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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 Jul 11, 11:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 11:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 12:00 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:18 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:20 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:22 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 11:29 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:44 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 11:45 PM CDT, 20 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
Jul 11, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	28 min
Jul 11, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Lipscomb	63 min
Jul 11, 7:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Lipscomb	3 hr
Jul 11, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	37 min
Jul 11, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	71 min
Jul 11, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	31 min
Jul 11, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	29 min
Jul 11, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	40 min
Jul 11, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	48 min
Jul 11, 9:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Oldham, Potter	5 hr
Jul 11, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	67 min
Jul 11, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	60 min
Jul 11, 9:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	39 min
Jul 11, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	28 min
Jul 11, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	57 min
Jul 11, 10:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore	3 hr
Jul 11, 10:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Sherman	3 hr
Jul 11, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	25 min
Jul 11, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter	45 min
Jul 11, 11:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hartley, Moore	3 hr
Jul 11, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	47 min
Jul 11, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	50 min
Jul 11, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	31 min
Jul 11, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	30 min
Jul 11, 11:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	4 hr
Jul 12, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter and 2 more	52 min
Jul 12, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Randall	38 min
Jul 12, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Potter, Randall	35 min
Jul 12, 2:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	6 hr
Jul 12, 2:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	4 hr
Jul 11, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	38 min
Jul 11, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	46 min
Jul 11, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	66 min
Jul 12, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	32 min
Jul 12, 3:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Beaver	4 hr

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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.