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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 24, 2000Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 4:47 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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: May 24, 2000, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
May 24, 5:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Borger, TX	The Emergency Manager's Office in Borger reported damage to several vehicles.
May 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Borger, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

684 
WUUS54 KAMA 242148
SVRAMA
TXC233-242230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
447 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 447 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BORGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BORGER AND SANFORD

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 24, 4:00 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:00 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
400 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

RECENT DISCUSSION WITH SPC HAS GENERATED A TORNADO WATCH FOR
THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.  WILL UPDATE PACKAGE.

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

WYNNE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 12:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-242300-

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1208 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

HIGH DEW POINTS AND STRONG DAYTIME HEATING WILL HELP THE ATMOSPHERE
BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO A WEAK COOL FRONT IS
SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TODAY AND WILL
WEAKEN THE CAP OVER THE AREA. AN ADDITION...ALONG AND TO THE NORTH
OF THIS FRONT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND UPSLOPE FLOW WILL ALSO HELP
BREAK THE CAP LATER TODAY. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...AND BE READY
FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

N. DIPASQUALE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	63 min
May 24, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	51 min
May 24, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Roberts	59 min
May 24, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	32 min
May 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	60 min
May 24, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	43 min
May 24, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	55 min
May 24, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	66 min
May 24, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	59 min
May 24, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	70 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.