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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 7, 2000, 3:57 PM CST for Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 7, 2000, 3:57 PM CST (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 4:35 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Canadian, TX | |
| Mar 7, 4:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Darrouzett, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
W. Woodward Airport, OK (KWWR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 072158 SVRAMA TXC211-295-072300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 357 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE HEMPHILL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 355 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOOKER TO 36 MILES SOUTH OF CANADIAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... LIPSCOMB...LAKE MARVIN...HIGGINS...GLAZIER...FOLLETT... DARROUZETT...CANADIAN AND BOOKER LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
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 Mar 7, 3:51 PM CST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:51 PM CST, 6 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 351 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 ...ADDED WIND ADVISORY HIGHLIGHTS... NEGATIVELY TILTED UPPER LEVEL WAVE OVER SERN NM IS LIFTING NE STEADILY TOWARD TX PNHDL. MEANWHILE...COLD FRONT HAS SWEPT EAST ACROSS THE WRN ONE-HALF OF THE TX/OK PNHDLS. PRE-FRONTAL SVR CONVECTION RAPIDLY MOVING EAST AND WILL LIKELY EXIT CWA BEFORE 00Z. MORNING MODEL RUNS WERE FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN PLACEMENT OF WX FEATURES AT 12Z. HOWEVER...CONSIDERING AMOUNT/DEPTH OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE...MODELS WERE A LITTLE TOO QUICK TO SWEEP MOST OF THE PNHDLS DRY DURING THE FIRST 12 HRS.. IN ANY CASE...THE MODELS SEEM REASONABLE BEYOND 00Z. UPPER SYSTEM EXPECTED TO BE IN CNTRL KS BY DAYBREAK WITH MOST OF ANY WRAP AROUND PRECIP IN WRN KS. SOME VERY LIGHT RAIN/SNOW SHOWERS MAY MAKE IT INTO THE CNTRL OK PNHDL...BUT CONFIDENCE IS VERY LOW. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE NIGHT AS SFC LOW IN ERN CO MOVES INTO THE CNTRL U.S. AND UNDERGOES FURTHER STRENGTHENING. WED WILL START OUT WITH NEAR WINDY CONDITIONS BEFORE PRESSURE GRADIENTS RELAX IN THE AFTN. DESPITE SOME CAA...MUCH OF THE LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL HAVE CONSIDERABLE DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT RESULTING MILD TEMPS. SOMEWHAT ZONAL FLOW ALOFT RETURNS ON THU IN ADVANCE OF NEXT UPSTREAM SYSTEM. UKMET/ECMWF STILL INDICATING CLOSED LOW OVER SRN ROCKIES BY 12Z FRI. HOWEVER...MRF AND 12Z AVN ARE LESS AMPLIFIED AND MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH THIS SYSTEM. WILL CONTINUE TO SIDE WITH UK/EC SCENARIO FOR SHRA/TSRA POTENTIAL FOR FRIDAY WITH DRY AND MILD WX FOR THE WEEKEND. .AMA... TX...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT TONIGHT TXZ001>020. OK...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT TONIGHT OKZ001>003. JH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 2:29 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
OKZ003-TXZ004-009-014-019-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 229 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TORNADO WATCH 69 AND ARE NOW INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH 71 THAT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST. COUNTIES IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE... BEAVER... IN THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... OCHILTREE...ROBERTS...GRAY AND DONLEY. JH
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 2:29 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
OKZ003-TXZ004-009-014-019-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 229 PM CST TUE MAR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TORNADO WATCH 69 AND ARE NOW INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH 71 THAT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST. COUNTIES IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE... BEAVER... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... OCHILTREE...ROBERTS...GRAY AND DONLEY. JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 53 min |
| Mar 7, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 45 min |
| Mar 7, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.