Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2000, 4:39 PM CST for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2000, 4:39 PM CST (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lipscomb County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 222240 SVRAMA TXC295-222330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 439 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 439 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... LIPSCOMB AND FOLLETT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3620 10049 3607 10033 3632 9999 3648 10019
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 22, 2:23 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 2:23 PM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 223 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 AS OF 19Z...DRYLINE IS MIXING OVER INTO THE EASTERN ZONES AND EXTENDS FROM APPROXIMATELY LIBERAL TO PAMPA TO CLARENDON. DRYLINE WILL SLOWLY MIX EASTWARD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. POTENT NEGATIVELY TILTED UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE OVER CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WILL ALSO MOVE OVER WEST TEXAS EARLY THIS EVENING. SURFACE DEW POINTS HAVE REACHED THE LOWER 60S OVER EXTREME EASTERN ZONES. APPEARS SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND CLOSE TO THE DRYLINE WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. PER COORDINATION WITH SPC WILL INCLUDE EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES IN WS45 FROM BEAVER TO COLLINGSWORTH. OTHERWISE...SHORTWAVE RIDGING EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY. HAVE DECIDED TO INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW CHANCE POPS OVER THE EASTERN ZONES FOR THURSDAY AS NEXT SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO DESTABILIZE OUR AREA COURTESY OF ACTIVE SOUTHERN STREAM. EXTENDED PERIODS OF FORECAST LOOKS IN LINE AND WONT MAKE ANY CHANGES. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SLATTERY
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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.