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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 10, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hartley County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
277 WUUS54 KAMA 102210 SVRAMA TXC205-102245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 507 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARTLEY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF HARTLEY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF DALHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... HARTLEY...U.S. HIGHWAY 87. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3573 10280 3572 10226 3605 10219 3606 10275
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 10, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 LN OF TRW DVLPG RAPIDLY ATTM ALG A GUY-DHT-N OF TCC LN. 18Z SFC ANALYSIS REVEALED LOW NR GUY...WITH TROF/DRYLN EXTDG SW TO NW OF TCC...THEN SWD TO NR ROW-INK-FST. SAME TROF EXTDS NEWD FM LOW TO NR DDC-RSL. INFLOW TO THIS BNDRY HAS MID-60S DWPTS OVR PNHDLS... ALLOWING FOR STG MSTR FLUX CNVGNC. GOES LI/S FM 19Z INDC AXIS OF -11 TO -14 LI/S LYING TO SE OF BNDRY. WL CALL FOR SCT TRW ALL SXNS TNGT...XCPT FOR WRN 1/3 OF OKLA PNHDL WHICH IS N OF BNDRY. WL ALSO MENTION LCLY HVY RAIN OVR MOST SXNS. LITTLE CHANGE IN WX PAT EXPCD SUN THRU WED...AS DEEP MSTR EXPCD TO RMN IN PLACE. THUS WL CONT CHC TRW SUN THRU WED. CDFNT TUE NGT MAY BRING END TO PCPN ON WED AFT POST-FNTL UPSLP FLOW DMSHS. DRIER AIR MOVS INTO AREA ON THU...SO NO POPS IN DAY 5. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-102300- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 105 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS. AS OF NOON...A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT STRETCHED FROM NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...JUST NORTH OF TUCUMCARI...TO SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS...JUST NORTH OF LIBERAL. MEANWHILE...AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS OVER SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO MOVING NORTHEAST. BY MID-AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT AS THE MOIST AIR MASS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT BECOMES MODERATELY UNSTABLE. FURTHERMORE...DUE TO THE APPROACH OF THE UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE...MID AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS WILL STRENGTHEN AND INTERACT WITH THE MODERATE INSTABILITY TO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE STRONG STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THEREFORE...SPOTTERS AND AREA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. JH
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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.