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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT for Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 8:26 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mc Lean, 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 150101 SVRAMA TXC179-483-150130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 759 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SOUTHWESTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALANREED...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... ALANREED...MCLEAN AND KELLERVILLE. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO THE SIZYE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM-TAKE COVER NOW. GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS!
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 Oct 14, 2:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 2:55 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 255 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 2000 QSTNRY FRONT ALONG A KSLN TO JUST NW OF KGAG TO NEAR KCVS. DRY ATMOSPHERE HAS INVADED ALL BUT SERN TX PNHDL FOR THIS REASON... WILL RETAIN LOW CHC POPS FOR TNGT DUE TO PROXIMITY OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND SUFFICIENT MOISTURE. ELSEWHERE...CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AGAIN AS NEXT UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF BEGINS TO AFFECT THE REGION. 12Z ETA/AVN/NGM/MESOETA ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE OVERALL UA PATTERN FEATURING SOME SEMBLANCE OF A SPLIT FLOW SCENARIO. FCST AREA TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A SRN BRANCH...WITH THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TROF PROGGED TO DIVE INTO NRN GULF OF CA...THEN ACROSS NRN MEXICO...FINALLY INTO ERN NM/W TX BY MON MORNING. MODELS HAVE COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT REGARDING STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM...BUT DIFFER IN QPF AMOUNTS. HAVE DISCARDED THE EXTRA SPURIOUS VORT MAX AVN SPINS UP WHICH MAY BE CONVECTIVELY INDUCED. ETA/NGM HAVE NO SUCH ENTITY. REFER TO PMDHMD FOR MORE INFO. NGM QPF FIELDS APPEAR TO BE CHARACTERISTICALLY DVLPG TOO MUCH HEAVY PRECIP IN UPSLOPE REGION. LIKE THE ETA QPF RENDITION OF PLACING AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAINFALL ALONG QSTNRY FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WHICH NOW APPEARS THAT IT WILL REMAIN JUST TO THE S AND E OF FCST AREA IN GENERAL. MODELS ALSO AGREE THIS WILL BE THE CASE. EXPECT THAT MOISTURE AT LOW AND MID LVLS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AND OVERRIDE THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS THE BAJA VORT MAX BEGINS TO APCH STARTING LATE TNGT. POP STRUCTURE FROM EARLIER ZN PCKG LOOKS PLAUSIBLE FOR DAYTIME SUN BASED ON ABV SCENARIO...BUT WILL BOOST A BIT FOR SUN NIGHT AS CONFIDENCE NOW HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY. SHORT WAVE TROF DRAGS ACROSS THE AREA ON MON WHICH SUGGESTS INTRODUCING POPS DURG THAT TIME. WX IMPROVES FROM W TO E LATE MON AND MON NIGHT. TEMPS A STRONG FUNCTION OF CLOUD COVER AND PRECIP. UKMET/ECMWF/MRF/NOGAPS/CANADIAN MODELS IN BETTER AGREEMENT WITH THE IDEA OF WEAK SPLIT FLOW PERSISTING INTO EARLY PARTS OF EXTENDED. DIFFERENCES ON TIMING AND STRENGTH OF MINOR IMPULSES CONTINUE HOWEVER. FOR NOW...DO NOT WANT TO SHOTGUN LOW PRECIP CHCS AS IT IS PSBL ANY SYSTEM THAT MAY AFFECT US MAY BE TOO WEAK TO CAUSE MUCH IN WAY OF PRECIP. BUT IF MOISTURE HANGS AROUND LONG ENOUGH THEN SOME SHOWERS COULD BREAK OUT IF A VORT MAX AFFECTS US. DUE TO UNCERTAINITES IN HOW THIS MAY PAN OUT...WILL MAINTAIN THEME OF PREVIOUS PCKG AND NOT MENTION ANY PRECIP DURG EXTENDED PERIODS. DHT 40/66/47/64 0133 GUY 43/67/49/65 0134 AMA 47/68/50/65 0365 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. ANDRADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 32 min |
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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.