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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 25, 2000Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2000, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Carson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 252155
TORAMA
TXC065-252230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
454 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL CARSON         
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF BORGER...DRIFTING SLOWLY        
  SOUTH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...

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

LAT...LON 3545 10149 3546 10139 3561 10117 3561 10152

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	33 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	30 min
Jun 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	59 min
Jun 25, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	33 min
Jun 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	48 min
Jun 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	38 min
Jun 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.