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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2026, 9:29 AM CDT for Potter 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
- Sep 25, 2026, 9:29 AM CDT (14:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2026, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 361 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 30 min |
| Sep 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 28 min |
| Sep 24, 7:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith | 117 min |
| Sep 24, 7:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 24 min |
| Sep 24, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 29 min |
| Sep 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 35 min |
| Sep 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Sep 24, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 25 min |
| Sep 24, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 29 min |
| Sep 25, 1:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 8:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 9:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 3 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.