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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 6:14 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Carson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1289 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
573 WUUS54 KAMA 092314 SVRAMA TXC065-100015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 614 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF PANHANDLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... PANHANDLE...SKELLYTOWN AND WHITE DEER LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. MOTORISTS WILL ENCOUNTER DAMAGING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND BLINDING RAIN. FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW. LAT...LON 3562 10161 3519 10162 3520 10116 3561 10110
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 Jun 9, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 SCT CNVTN OCRG ATTM OVR WRN HALF OF FCST AREA. WL GO WITH AREAL QUALIFIERS ALL SXNS...WITH COVERAGE HIST OVR WRN ZNS... AND LOWEST OVR SERN ZNS. NEWD MOVMT OF EXISTING TSTMS PLACES ERY EVE TRAJECTORIES OVR ALL BUT SERN ZNS...WHERE GOES LI/S TREND TWD MORE STABLE VALUES. AXIS OF -9 GOES LI VALUES SEEN AT 19Z RUNNING N-S THRU PNHDLS. EXPC AMS TO RMN MOIST THRU WEEKEND AND ERY PART OF NEXT WEEK. INCOMING SYSTEM MOVG TWD RCKYS ON 12Z ANALYSIS HAS DEEP BAROCLINICITY...SO BELIEVE THAT SUPPORT FOR TSTMS WL NOT BE LACKING SAT AND SAT NGT. GEN PAT OF TROF TO WEST FCST TO CONT THRU TUE...THEN TROF AND ASSOCD CDFNT EXPCD TO MOV THRU AREA ERY WED. WL CONT WITH CHC TRW THRU EXTDD. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 1:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-092300- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 140 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. A MID-LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL LIFT NORTHEAST OVER WEST TEXAS TONIGHT AS A STRONG MID TO UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. MOVES NORTHEAST OVER THE ROCKIES. MEANWHILE...A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL SHIFT EAST INTO THE WESTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO IN PROXIMITY OF THE SURFACE TROUGH BY MID-AFTERNOON...AND MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER...THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN LATE THIS EVENING AS THEY MOVE INTO THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. DUE TO THE STRENGTHENING MID-LEVEL AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS AND MODERATE INSTABILITY...THERE IS THE THREAT THAT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WESTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES WILL APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 56 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.