Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2000, 2:45 PM CST for Armstrong County, Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 22, 2000, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 638 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 222047 SVRAMA TXC011-065-222115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 245 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE NORTHWESTERN ARMSTRONG COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 245 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF WASHBURN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CLAUDE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... WASHBURN AND PANHANDLE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3505 10163 3502 10144 3547 10132 3551 10159
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 22, 2:16 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:16 PM CST, 29 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 216 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 WILL GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA. UPPER LOW SHOULD START TO MOVE OFF TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST TONIGHT. WE LIKE THE ETA/S POSITIONS WITH THE LOW THROUGH THURSDAY. DO NOT KNOW IF THE SURFACE LOW WILL MAKE THAT BIG OF A MOVE TO THE NORTH LIKE THE MODELS SAY. WE WILL KEEP THE SURFACE LOW MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ZONES ON THURSDAY. STRONG WAA... DYNAMICS...AND PLENTY OF MOISTURE ALONG WITH COUPLED JETS SHOULD GIVE THE PANHANDLES A DECENT SHOT OF HEAVY RAIN. PRECIPITABLE WATER ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES WILL ALSO BE AROUND ONE INCH...PRETTY HIGH FOR LATE MARCH. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE SLOW TO LEAVE THURSDAY AS LOW PULLS AWAY AND CLOUDS SHOULD DECREASE THURSDAY NIGHT AS NVA AND DOWNSLOPING SETS IN. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL BE RECOVERY DAYS BEFORE THE NEW UPPER LOW DROPS DOWN INTO SOUTHERN ARIZONA FOR SUNDAY. WE WILL CONTINUE PRECIPITATION CHANCES INTO MONDAY AS NEXT UPPER LOW ROTATES THROUGH THE REGION. THANK YOU FOR THE COORDINATION LBB. A FEW NUMBERS TO PONDER: DHT 39/51 36/65 39 ++0 AMA 42/54 40/69 41 +70 BVR 46/55 41/68 42 ++3 .AMA... TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ZONES 001>020. OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ZONES 001>003. GOEHRING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 12:51 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-222200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CST TUE MAR 21 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS A POSSIBILITY. AN ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM FROM THE SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS INCLUDING THE PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LOWER CENTER WILL MOVE ALONG THE MEXICO/ARIZONA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LOW APPROACHES THE AREA THIS EVENING... WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND SPREAD EAST INTO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WHICH COULD RESULT IN SOME AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. AS VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW APPROACHES SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MO;ST LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. COBB
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 12:57 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-222200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CST TUE MAR 21 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS A POSSIBILITY. AN ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM FROM THE SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS INCLUDING THE PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LOW CENTER WILL MOVE ALONG THE MEXICO/ARIZONA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LOW APPROACHES THE AREA THIS EVENING... WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND SPREAD EAST INTO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WHICH COULD RESULT IN SOME AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. AS VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW APPROACHES SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. COBB
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 1:08 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-222200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 108 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS A POSSIBILITY. AN ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM FROM THE SOUTH ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS INCLUDING THE PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. A STRONG UPPER LOW CENTER WILL MOVE ALONG THE MEXICO/ARIZONA BORDER THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LOW APPROACHES THE AREA THIS EVENING... WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NEW MEXICO AND SPREAD EAST INTO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WHICH COULD RESULT IN SOME AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. AS VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW APPROACHES SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MOST LIKELY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. COBB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 4:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 3 hr |
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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.