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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 27, 2000Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2000, 10:35 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2000, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Moore County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 354 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 280336
TORAMA
TXC341-280415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1035 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1035 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST WEST OF ETTER. 
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF DUMAS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. 

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  SUNRAY AND CACTUS

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

LAT...LON 3606 10202 3591 10206 3583 10162 3605 10164

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley60 min
Jun 27, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.