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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2000, 8:28 PM CST for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 28, 2000, 8:28 PM CST (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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 28, 8:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Higgins, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 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 290229 SVRAMA TXC295-290300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 828 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 828 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF HIGGINS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... HIGGINS LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
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 28, 8:05 PM CST, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 8:05 PM CST, 23 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 805 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000 WILL ISSUE UPDT TO ZONES SOON. WL REMOVE TSTMS FM 1ST PD OVR SRN AND WRN ZNS...AND EL,IMINATE OR REDUCE POPS SAME AREA. WL CALL FOR NMRS OR WDSPRD RW/TRW IN NERN ZNS. WL REMOVE MENTION OF SVR IN SERN ZNS. NO CHANGES TO LATER PDS. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
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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.