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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT for Wheeler 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
863 WUUS54 KAMA 170101 SVRAMA TXC483-170130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 800 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WHEELER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF ALLISON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... ALLISON AND BRISCOE 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 May 16, 5:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 5:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 533 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 2000 AMA WSR-88D SHOWING A BOUNDARY FM NR PAMPA TO JUST E OF KAMA TO NR CANYON TO BTWN HEREFORD AND NAZARETH TO NR MORTON AND CAUSEY. CNVTN APRS TO BE DVLPG ERY THIS EVENING FM NR NAZARETH NEWD TO NR CANYON TO JUST SE OF KAMA. THIS CNVTN WL MOV NEWD AT 20 TO 25 KTS AND...DUR TO THE DRY AMS ACRS THE S-CNTRL TX PNHDL...FEEL NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF PRECIP WL REACH THE GROUND. LTST LIGHTNING DATA ALSO INDICATES NO LIGHTNING STRIKES YET FM THIS CNVTN. WL UPDATE FCST TO INTRODUCE AREAL COVERAGE POPS IN THE S-CNTRL TX PNHDL FOR MAINLY THIS EVENING. OTRW...CONT FCSTy AS IS. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SCHNEIDER
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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.