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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 24, 2025Armstrong County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2025, 9:56 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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 24, 2025, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 30 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: 1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 Jul 24, 8:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 8:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 12:40 PM CDT, 9 hours 16 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1240 PM CDT Thu Jul 24 2025

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-250545-
Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb-
Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson-
Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth-
Palo Duro Canyon-
1240 PM CDT Thu Jul 24 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Strong to severe thunderstorms have a chance to transpire across
the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles this afternoon into tonight.
Heavy rain and damaging winds are the primary hazards expected
from this activity.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 7:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 9:31 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 9:38 PM CDT, 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
Jul 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	45 min
Jul 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	29 min
Jul 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	36 min
Jul 24, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	32 min
Jul 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	25 min
Jul 24, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	24 min
Jul 24, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	27 min
Jul 24, 8:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	3 hr
Jul 24, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	31 min
Jul 24, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	44 min
Jul 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	29 min
Jul 24, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr
Jul 24, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	52 min
Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	26 min
Jul 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Randall	7 min
Jul 24, 10:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	3 hr
Jul 24, 10:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jul 24, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	38 min
Jul 24, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	47 min
Jul 24, 10:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Potter, Randall	2 hr
Jul 24, 11:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	55 min
Jul 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	20 min
Jul 25, 12:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr
Jul 25, 12:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	2 hr
Jul 25, 2:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Beaver	114 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.