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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Shamrock, 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
378 WUUS54 KAMA 250135 SVRAMA TXC483-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 833 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WHEELER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 833 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF NEW MOBEETIE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... SHAMROCK...BRISCOE...KELLERVILLE...NEW MOBEETIE AND WHEELER A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3561 10051 3519 10051 3520 10001 3560 10002
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, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 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, 8:10 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-250300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 810 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED A PORTION OF TORNADO WATCH 341. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: CIMARRON...TEXAS... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: DALLAM...SHERMAN...POTTER...HARTLEY...MOORE...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH... RANDALL... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WESTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP THIS EVENING. TORNADO WATCH 341 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: BEAVER... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: HANSFORD...OCHILTREE...LIPSCOMB...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...HEMPHILL... CARSON...GRAY...WHEELER...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY...COLLINGSWORTH...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 20 min |
| 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 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.