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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2000, 5:13 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 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
- Oct 25, 2000, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 252213 SVRAMA OKC007-252315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 513 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SLAPOUT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEAVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... GATE AND KNOWLES LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3700 10047 3650 10047 3651 10001 3700 10001
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 25, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT WED OCT 25 2000 THE UPR LO THAT BROUGHT THE HEAVY RAIN TO THE PNHDLS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL FINALLY VACATE THE AREA. THE ASSOC VORT LOBE...WHICH IS CURRENTLY MOVG THRU THE PNHDLS...WILL BE EAST OF THE CWA THIS EVENING. SUBSIDENCE IN ITS WAKE WILL RESULT IN CLEARING SKIES. WEAK SHRTWV RIDGING OVER THE AREA ON THU WILL MAINTAIN THE DRY CONDITIONS. THEN ON THU NIGHT...IMPULSE EJECTED AHEAD OF THE NEXT LOW WILL APPROACH THE PNHDLS AND COULD LEAD TO SCT PCPN. LAST FCSTR HAD ALREADY INTRODUCED A SLGT CHC POPS IN THE SRN TX PNHDL BUT WITH 12Z NGM SO BULLISH ON PCPN...WILL INCR POPS TO 30 PERCENT IN THE SOUTH AND INTRODUCE A 20 PERCENT FOR THE NORTH. BETTER CHANCES FOR RAIN EXPECTED FOR FRI AND SAT AS THE MAIN LOW OPENS AND MOVES ACRS THE WRN U.S. DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS PNHDLS AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF T~HE NEXT LOW IN THE SERIES. AMA BB 049/070 050/068 049 07003 DHT BB 042/070 042/067 043 07002= .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SP
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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.