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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 25, 2000Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 5:27 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 25, 2000, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	White Deer, 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 252228
TORAMA
TXC065-252300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
527 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 527 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN SKELLYTOWN...MOVING      
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WHITE DEER AND SKELLYTOWN

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3542 10110 3562 10110 3561 10144 3541 10143

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	33 min
Jun 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	36 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	30 min
Jun 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	59 min
Jun 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	48 min
Jun 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	38 min
Jun 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	49 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.