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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:39 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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 22, 2000, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Deaf Smith County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
830
WUUS54 KAMA 222040
SVRAMA
TXC117-222115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
339 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN DEAF SMITH COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF DAWN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
SOUTH OF VEGA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
HEREFORD DAWN
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
LAT...LON 3501 10260 3489 10244 3489 10218 3511 10217
3519 10235What 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 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2000 PLENTY OF DAYTIME HEATING...MOISTURE...INSTABILITY...AND NO CAP HAVE RESULTED IN EARLY DVLPMT OF TSTMS THIS AFTN OVER NM/SERN CO AND WRN/CNTRL OK/TX PNHDLS INTO OTHER PARTS OF W TX. WILL USE LAST MINUTE RADAR INFO TO DECIDE ON VALUES FOR AREAL QUALIFIER POPS. WILL MORE THAN LIKELY HAVE HIGHEST VALUES OVER WRN/CNTRL ZNS AND SLIGHTLY LOWER ERN. 12Z ETA/AVN/NGM IN FAIR AGREEMENT THRU 48 HRS WITH OVERALL PATTERN. DIFFERENCES ARISE IN DEGREE OF AMPLITUDE OF SHORTWAVES RACING ACROSS NRN US AND IN THE RIDGE JUST TO OUR S. AVN MOST AMPLIFIED WHILE ETA AND NGM OFFER A FLATTER RIDGE. PREFER A BLEND. THE BOTTOM LINE APPEARS TO BE ONE OF PERSISTENCE THRU SATURDAY. DAYTIME HEATING... INSTABILITY...MOISTURE...SFC CONVERGENCE ALONG LEE TROF...PLUS ANY MINOR DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE AXIS WARRANTS MAINTAINING THREAT OF TSTMS THRU SATURDAY. WRN ZNS MAY BE MORE FAVORED THAN ERN ZNS AT TIMES. IN THE EXTENDED PD...ECMWF/UKMET/MRF/CANADIAN/NOGAPS DIFFER ON DEGREE OF AMPLIFICATION. HOWEVER...IT DOES APPEAR THAT A CONSENSUS IS TRYING TO BE REACHED ON WHEN NEXT COLD FRONT WILL AFFECT US. STILL LOOKS GOOD THAT THE FRONT WOULD LIKELY AFFECT US LATE SAT NIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY...AND WILL CONTINUE WITH THAT THEME. CHCS FOR TSTMS THRU TUE SEEM PLAUSIBLE. ALSO...WE WILL NEED TO WATCH MOISTURE FROM HRCN CARLOTTA JUST IN CASE SOME OF IT SPINS OFF AND GETS CAUGHT UP AROUND THE WRN PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE AS AN ADDED MOISTURE SUPPLY FOR PARTS OF THE SW US. IN GENERAL...HAVE RETAINED INTEGRITY OF PREVIOUS FCST PCKG. PRELIM VALUES FOLLOW. DHT 64/94/64/94 3232 GUY 65/95/65/94 3232 AMA 66/94/66/94 4232 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. ANDRADE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-222200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 104 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2000 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER THE PANHANDLES. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS WEST OF A LINE FROM BEAVER TO BORGER TO AMARILLO AND CANYON. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS BUT SOME HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THIS AFTERNOON...DEEP MOISTURE CONTINUES IN PLACE OVER THE PANHANDLES. A SURFACE TROUGH IS LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR THE SURFACE TROUGH MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN ONE HALF OF THE PANHANDLES. WIND SPEEDS ALOFT ARE ONLY IN THE 5 TO 10 MPH RANGE. ENVIRONMENTAL STEERING CURRENTS FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TOWARDS THE EAST OR NORTHEAST AT SIMILAR SPEEDS. ACTIVATION FOR STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BECOME NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR A FEW STORMS WHICH APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS. SLATTERY
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.