Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2000, 11:16 PM CDT for Dallam County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Jun 20, 2000, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallam County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 210417 SVRAMA TXC111-210515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1116 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DALLAM COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1116 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF TEXLINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CONLEN...TEXLINE AND WARE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3648 102z27 3644 10317 3606 10299 3608 10221
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 20, 10:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1008 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 WL LEAVE POPS ALONE FOR NOW. STRONG CONVECTION ORGANIZING IN SE CO AND NE NM. FURTHER E...CONVECTION STRUGGLING IN MOST UNSTABLE AIR WHERE LONE STORM HAS MOVED S OF FA. ADDITIONAL STORMS IN SRN KS VERY SLOWLY BUILDING W ALSO. LATEST ETA/00Z RUC SHOWING THESE AREAS MERGING AFT MIDNIGHT WITH CONVECTION ENDING UP WHERE HIGHEST POPS EXIST IN NE ZNS. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COBB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
OKZ002-003-TXZ002>005-007>015-017>020-210600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 751 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED A PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 472. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: OLDHAM... OLDHAM COUNTY WAS NOT INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 472 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 100 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: TEXAS...BEAVER... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: SHERMAN...HANSFORD...OCHILTREE...POTTER...LIPSCOMB...MOORE... HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...HEMPHILL...CARSON...GRAY...WHEELER... RANDALL...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY...COLLINGSWORTH... SC
Local storm report, Jun 20, 9:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
959 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 PM 6 S CLARENDON TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/20/00 DONLEY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
PINSON/WOLTERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 39 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.