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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 1, 2026Donley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2026, 7:53 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 97 min. 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 1, 2026, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2026, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Donley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 322 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: 2913 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:12 PM CDT, 41 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 1, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	33 min
Jul 1, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	37 min
Jul 1, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	54 min
Jul 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray	46 min
Jul 1, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	37 min
Jul 1, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	59 min
Jul 1, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray	113 min
Jul 1, 10:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	2 hr
Jul 1, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	60 min
Jul 1, 10:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Donley	101 min
Jul 1, 11:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Donley	92 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.