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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 25, 2000Potter County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT for Potter County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 15 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: May 25, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Canyon, TX
May 25, 9:25 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Canyon, TX
May 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Hail 1	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Canyon, TX
May 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Amarillo, TX	Damage estimate of ten million dollars includes damage estimated for all of Potter and Randall counties.
May 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:32 PM CDT	Hail 1	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:41 PM CDT	Hail 2	Amarillo, TX
May 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Canyon, 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
May 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

436 
WFUS54 KAMA 260156
TORAMA
TXC375-381-260245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
855 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RANDALL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
  SOUTHWESTERN POTTER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 853 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SPORTTERS REPORTED A
  TORNADO JUST NORTH OF DAWN. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM
  WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF UMBARGER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF
  CANYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  UMBARGER...CANYON...BUSHLAND...BUFFALO LAKE AND AMARILLO.

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

LAT...LON 3522 10214 3486 10215 3499 10171 3528 10178

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, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	24 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.