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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2000, 2:11 PM CDT for Potter County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 23, 2000, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Amarillo, TX | The tornado...which began in Randall county...touched down three or four times during its lifetime for only a few seconds each time as it moved across the eastern sections of Amarillo. The tornado caused minor damage at a water park and also a grain elevator |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 231915 TORAMA TXC375-381-231945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 211 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE NORTHEASTERN RANDALL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF AMARILLO... NEAR I-40 AND LOOP 335...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... AMARILLO A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. LAT...LON 3520 10185 3506 10173 3510 10164 3541 10163
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 37 min |
| Oct 23, 4:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 3 hr |
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.