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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 7:23 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. 2 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, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Donley County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:26 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Ashtola, TX | |
| Jun 25, 7:31 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clarendon, 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 260025 TORAMA TXC129-260100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 723 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN DONLEY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF GREENBELT LAKE... OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLARENDON...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOWARDWICK...GREENBELT LAKE AND CLARENDON A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3487 10109 3480 10086 3515 10086 3516 10108
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 44 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 |
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.