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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 18, 2025Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 18, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2025, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2025-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1097 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2025-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 7:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHartley30 min
Aug 17, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMASherman35 min
Aug 17, 7:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMADallam, Hartley3 hr
Aug 17, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMASherman32 min
Aug 17, 8:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMASherman32 min
Aug 17, 9:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAMoore36 min
Aug 17, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHartley32 min
Aug 18, 2:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAWheeler35 min
Aug 18, 3:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACarson29 min
Aug 18, 3:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAWheeler32 min
Aug 18, 3:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAWheeler31 min
Aug 18, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler53 min
Aug 18, 4:05 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMAHemphill, Wheeler3 hr
Aug 18, 4:17 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMACollingsworth, Wheeler3 hr
Aug 18, 4:28 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMAGray2 hr
Aug 18, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHemphill26 min
Aug 18, 4:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACollingsworth28 min
Aug 18, 5:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACollingsworth34 min
Aug 18, 5:28 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMACollingsworth, Donley3 hr
Aug 18, 6:13 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMAArmstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray3 hr
Aug 18, 6:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADonley23 min
Aug 18, 6:54 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMARandall16 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.