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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2000, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Donley County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Ashtola, TX | |
| Jun 25, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clarendon, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 260017 SVRAMA TXC129-260100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 716 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN DONLEY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF GREENBELT LAKE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLARENDON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CLARENDON...GREENBELT LAKE AND HOWARDWICK VERY SMALL...BRIEF...BUT DANGEROUS TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM-TAKE COVER NOW. GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS! LAT...LON 3517 10107 3485 10107 3487 10083 3517 10081
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 25, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 FIRST PERIOD OF FORECAST CONTAINS QUITE A BIT OF UNCERTAINTY. FIRST PERIOD IS REALLY SPLIT INTO TWO TIME PERIODS. PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT...AIRMASS OVER FORECAST AREA PLENTY JUICY...BUT AGAIN DECENT CAP OVER MUCH OF THE AREA EXCEPT FOR EASTERN SECTIONS. WILL LIKELY WAIT UNTIL LAST MINUTE FOR INITIAL POPS. MIDNIGHT THROUGH SUNRISE...MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH MIDNIGHT WITH FRONT PUSHING INTO OK PANHANDLE. ETA AND NGM SPEED IT UP A LITTLE AND PUSH IT THROUGH THE PANHANDLES BY 12Z. AVN IS SLOWER. HOWEVER...WITH STRONG TSTM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN KANSAS TONIGHT...WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE FRONT SWEEP IN AS ADVERTISED IN THE ETA/NGM SOLUTION. WILL INDICATE GOOD CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. OTHER PROBLEM TO CONSIDER IS FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. HEAVY RAINFALL PAST 48 HOURS OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. A CHECK WITH OFFICIALS HERE INDICATE HIGHLY SATURATED SOILS AND SWOLLEN CREEKS. WILL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR COUNTIES IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PANHANDLE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY WITH PROSPECTS OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. FOLLOWING FRONTAL PASSAGE...STRONG UPSLOPE FLOW DEVELOPS ON MONDAY AND CONTINUES INTO TUESDAY. CLOUDY AND COOLER CONDITIONS A GIVEN... BUT POPS ARE QUESTIONABLE DEPENDING ON SHORT WAVE ACTIVITY AND BOUNDARIES THAT MAY DEVELOP IN THE WARMER AIR TO OUR WEST. BEST CHANCES DEFINITELY CENTRAL AND WEST WITH LEAST PROBABILITIES IN THE NORTHEAST. IN THE EXTENDED WILL CHANGE LITTLE FROM CURRENT FORECAST. MODELS INDICATE BUILDING RIDGE...WARMING TEMPERATURES AND RETURN TO NORTHWEST FLOW WITH SERIES OF WEAK SHORT WAVES. THEREFORE...CHANCES OF ACTIVITY MOVING IN FROM MOUNTAINS AGAIN AND CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. FRIDAY LOOKS MORE INTERESTING...BUT NOTE THE NCEPS PMDEPD AND POTENTIAL CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS WITH MRF. PRELIM NUMBERS... AMA 65/79 61/82 61 443 DHT 61/76 57/80 61 433 .AMA... TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR TXZ002>004. OK...NONE. GARCIA/COBB/DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.