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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 25, 2000Armstrong County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 7:07 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports 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, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Armstrong County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Goodnight, TX
Jun 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Goodnight, TX
Jun 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Goodnight, 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
Jun 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 260010
TORAMA
TXC011-260045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF GOODNIGHT...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLAUDE...MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  HIGHWAY 287 JUST SOUTHEAST OF GOODNIGHT

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3498 10133 3492 10109 3517 10109 3517 10135

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	44 min
Jun 25, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Donley	37 min
Jun 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	34 min
Jun 25, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	36 min
Jun 25, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	65 min
Jun 26, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	41 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.