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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2000, 6:44 PM CST for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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, 7:00 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Miami, 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 WFUS54 KAMA 250045 TORAMA TXC393-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 644 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 644 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS 5 MILES NORTH OF MIAMI... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY TH&IS STORM INCLUDE... LORA A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. &
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, 6:48 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, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 30 min |
| 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.