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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 13, 2000Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT for Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 13, 2000, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Jun 13, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Perryton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 815 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 132315
TORAMA
TXC357-140000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
613 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN OCHILTREE COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF WOLF CREEK       
  PARK MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  WOLF CREEK PARK

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW! LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF 
BALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND 
VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3637 10055 3638 10083 3607 10093 3607 10054

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	AMA	Ochiltree	36 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	67 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	48 min
Jun 13, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.