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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2000, 7:47 PM CST for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lipscomb County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:01 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Follett, TX | |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Lipscomb, TX | The tornado track was estimated and the tornado damaged nine irrigation sprinklers. Trees were uprooted and fences were blown down three miles east of Follett. The tornado also damaged roof tops, outbuildings, water wind mills, and one tractor cab along with s |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 250148 TORAMA TXC295-250215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 747 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 815 PM CST * AT 747 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LIPSCOMB... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... LIPSCOMB A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORtE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3621 10035 3609 10020 3640 9977 3656 9997
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 17 min |
| Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Feb 25, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 32 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.