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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 7:10 PM CDT for Hansford County, Texas. It was in force for 20 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
- May 24, 2000, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hansford County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 2804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2216 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
296 WUUS54 KAMA 250011 SVRAMA TXC195-250030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 710 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HANSFORD COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF SPEARMAN TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPEARMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... SPEARMAN DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LAT...LON 3649 10120 3607 10149 3607 10110 3649 10110
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, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 53 min |
| May 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 68 min |
| May 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 66 min |
| May 24, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 57 min |
| May 25, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 57 min |
| May 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.