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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
- May 25, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Deaf Smith County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dawn, TX | Amateur radio trained storm spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown. The tornado track and path width were estimated. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 260139 COR WFUS54 KAMA 260138 TORAMA TXC117-260200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR DEAF SMITH COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 836 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DEAF SMITH COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF HEREFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... DAWN AND LOCATIONS ALONG TEXAS HIGHWAY 809. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3518 10250 3476 10246 3475 10216 3518 10216
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 40 min |
| May 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 37 min |
| May 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 46 min |
| May 25, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 37 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 46 min |
| May 25, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 41 min |
| May 25, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 50 min |
| May 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 39 min |
| May 25, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 49 min |
| May 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 30 min |
| May 25, 9:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Gray | 68 min |
| May 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 62 min |
| May 25, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 43 min |
| May 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 66 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 80 min |
| May 25, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 67 min |
| May 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Carson | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Gray | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.