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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 30 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), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:07 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Wheeler, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 250201 SVRAMA TXC483-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 800 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 800 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF WHEELER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF SHAMROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. GOLFBALL HAIL WAS REPORTED BETWEEN WHEELER AND TWITTY AT 800 PM. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... WHEELER...TWITTY AND ALLISON LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS.._.AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3523 10040 3519 10001 3563 10001 3561 10023
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 17 min |
| Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Feb 25, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.