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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2000, 9:23 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2000, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 270226 SVRAMA TXC065-270300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 923 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 923 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF GROOM...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF GROOM. 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 Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000 SFC TEMPS IN LOWER TO MID 80S ALG WITH DWPTS IN THE LOWER TO MID 50S ACRS CNTRL SXNS OF PNHDLS ATTM. RESULT IS AXIS OF INSTBY FM LBB TO GUY WITH LI/S AOB -6. SFC LOW OVR SERN CO/SWRN KS...WITH DRYLN STILL W OF DHT...TO NR CVS...AND SERN NM. OUTFLOW BNDRY FM ERY MRNG TSTMS LIES ACRS ERN ZNS. OLD CDFNT MOVG NWD THRU S PLNS AS A WK WMFNT. WK WMFNT ALSO EXTDG SEWD FM SFC LOW THRU NERN CORNER OF FCST AREA. MID- AND UPR-LVL DYNAMICS ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY. INCRSG H8 FLOW THIS EVE AND TNGT ARE EXPCD TO PROVIDE FORCING FOR TRW. CDFNT MOVG THRU NRN CO ATTM IS EXPCD TO OVERTAKE DRYLN AND PRE- FRONTAL TROF...PASSING THRU ALL OF PNHDLS BFR SR. CNVGNC WL STRENGTHEN AS H8 FLOW INCRS ON BOTH SIDES OF H8 CDFNT. WL CALL FOR SCT TRW IN ERN ZNS...CHC TRW IN CNTRL AND WRN ZNS...CALLING FOR PSBL SVR ALL SXNS. COOL SFC HI BUILDS INTO AREA ON THU...WITH NELY SFC WNDS BCMG ELY LATE IN DAY. THIS WL SET THE STAGE FOR GULF TO OPEN FOR CHC TRW FRI NGT THRU MON. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 60 min |
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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.