Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Beaver County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 162308 SVRAMA OKC007-170000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 605 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BOYD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... BEAVER...BOYD...FLORIS...MOCANE AND TURPIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3698 10094 3651 10095 3652 10037 3699 10033
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 Jul 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000 LATEST ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT THE WELL DEFINED COLD FRONT WAS ORIENTED ALONG AND S OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM KLNK TO KHLC TO KLHX. THIS FRONT HAS CONTINUED ITS SWD PUSH ALL DAY...HELPED IN PART BY OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM TSTM COMPLEX. TEMPS IN 70S BEHIND IT AND 90S/100S AHEAD OF IT. MOIST UPSLOPE LOW LVL FLOW SEEN UPSTREAM BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. THE CHALLENGE WILL BE TIMING OF THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. EARLIER TSTM CLUSTERS IN ERN CO AND NW KS/SRN NE MORE THAN LIKELY AIDED THE SOUTHWARD PUSH TO THE FRONT. WITH MORE TSTMS EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG AND BEHIND IT TNGT IN THE CNTRL PLAINS AND ERN CO...SEE NO REASON WHY THE FRONT WILL NOT DROP INTO THE FCST AREA. SHORT RANGE MODELS HAVE HAD A BAD HISTORY OF NOT HANDLING THESE SUMMER COLD FRONTS VERY WELL AT ALL...AND THIS IS NO DOUBT THE CASE WITH THIS APCHG BOUNDARY. HOWEVER...IT APPEARS THE ETA AND MESOETA ARE DOING THE BEST JOB HANDLING IT...AND HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH THOSE MODELS. PLAN ON BRINGING FRONT INTO NWRN SECTIONS VERY LATE TNGT...THEN THRU NRN HALF DURG MON MORNING...AND FINALLY THRU THE SRN HALF OF FCST MON AFTN/EVENING. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AT ALL IF IT CAME THRU QUICKER THAN ETA/MESO ETA SUGGESTS. BEST CHCS FOR TSTMS WILL BE ALONG AND N OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE COMBINATION OF ADEQUATE MOISTURE... UPSLOPE FLOW...AND MINOR SHORTWAVE TROFS TRAVERSING PERIPHERY OF UPPER RIDGE THRU SCNTRL PLAINS WARRANTS BOOSTING POPS A BIT WITH HIGHEST VALUES NRN ZNS CLOSEST TO PROGGED VORT TRACKS. PLAN ON KNOCKING MAX TEMPS DOWN A BIT FOR MON AND TUES DUE TO EXPECTED FRONTAL PASSAGE...CLOUD COVER...AND PSBL PRECIP. AT UPPER LEVELS...SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT MAINTAINING AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER SCNTRL PLAINS/SRN ROCKIES THRU TUE...THEN SLOWLY RETROGRADING IT TO THE FOUR CORNERS/EASTERN GREAT BASIN REGION DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK. THIS WOULD PUT PNHDLS IN WNW TO NW FLOW ALOFT...FAVORABLE FOR STEERING STORMS OFF THE MOUNTAINS TO OUR W AND NW. LONGER RANGE PROGS...ESPECIALLY ECMWF ...UKMET/NOGAPS/CANADIAN SUGGEST ANOTHER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AROUND THU AFTN/EVENING. WILL GENERALLY RETAIN INTEGRITY OF EXTENDED WITH SOME TWEEKS TO TEMPS. LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO CONSIDER GOING FROM SLIGHT CHC TO CHC TSTMS IN EXTENDED IF FAVORABLE PATTERN CONTINUES TO BE PROGGED. COORD WITH LBB. PRELIM VALUES FOLLOW. DHT 66/89/64/89 4343 GUY 67/89/66/89 4343 AMA 68/93/67/90 2243 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. ANDRADE
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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.