Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2000, 6:37 AM CDT for Hemphill County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
- Apr 26, 2000, 6:37 AM CDT (11:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2000, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hemphill County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 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 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 2033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
646 WUUS54 KAMA 261139 SVRAMA TXC211-261230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 637 AM CDT WED APR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HEMPHILL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 730 AM CDT * AT 637 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF CANADIAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE MARVIN AT 655 AM CDT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS. LAT...LON 3600 10040 3586 10054 3563 10025 3587 10003
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 Apr 26, 5:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 5:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 535AM CDT WED APR 26 2000 AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...FORECAST HAS NOW OFFICIALLY BECOME A NIGHTMARE. WEAK SHORTWAVE CROSSING NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE TOUCHING OFF CONVECTION. HAVE UPDATED NORTHEAST ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. AT THIS TIME... REMAINDER OF FORECAST REMAINS INTACT. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. GARCIA
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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.