Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 5:51 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2001, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Collingsworth County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wellington, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 200 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 A SHRTWV TROF NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY MOVG THRU THE INTRMTRGN AND IS FCSTD TO BCM NEGATIVELY-TILTED AS IT SWINGS THRU THE RCKYS THIS AFTN AND THIS EVE. SHRTWV ENERGY FCSTD TO LIFT NEWD OUT OF AZ AND THE SRN RCKYS BY THIS EVE...HWVR 700 MB TEMPS FCSTD TO BE IN THE 13 TO 15+ DEG C RANGE WHEN THE SHRTWV ENERGY FCSTD TO MOV ACRS. CONCERNED THAT LOW CLDS AND FOG MAY RE-DVLP ONCE AGAIN LTR TNGT AND ERY TUE BHND THE FNT...SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENED THIS MRNG. MAY DECIDE TO PUT LOW CLDS AND FOG IN THE TNGT FCST. 700 MB TEMPS ARE FCSTD TO COOL TO UNDER 12 DEG C ON TUE AS ANOTHER SHRTWV TROF MOVS OUT OF THE RCKYS BY 00Z WED. CONCERNED THAT CNVTN WL FIRE UP LT TUE/TUE NGT...PSBLY A NOCTURNAL EVENT...AND MAY BUMP POPS BACK UP/ADD THEM BACK IN. AVN IS THE PREFERED MODEL OF CHOICE THIS FCST PD. CNVTN MAY BE ONGOING EVEN INTO WED AS THE AVN QPF INDICATES. MAY DECIDE TO GO WITH CHC POPS ON WED RATHER THAN SLGT CHC. SHRTWV FCSTD TO MOV VERY SLOLY ACRS THE SRN RCKYS TUE NGT AND THEN RMNS OVR NE/ERN NM BY 18Z WED. FNTL BNDRY FCSTD TO SLIDE SWD ACRS THE PNHDLS TNGT AS SFC LOW DROPS SWD INTO THE TX PNHDL. SFC LOW FCSTD TO BE OVR THE PERMIAN BASIN OF W TX LT TUE INTO WED AS NE TO SW ORIENTED SFC RDG BUILDS DOWN INTO THE FA. THIS WL PROVIDE A GOOD UPSLP FLOW AND ALLOW COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF LO LVL MSTR TO ADVECT INTO THE PNHDLS ALG WITH CAA. SFC TROF DVLPS LT WED AND WED NGT ALG THE LEE OF THE RCKYS AND MAY BCM DRYLN BY THU. BETTER CHC FOR CNVTN WED EVE/NGT AND AGAIN THU EVE/NGT AS THE SFC TROF/DRYLN RMNS FM SERN CO INTO ERN NM. SFC LOW DVLPS ACRS ERN CO THU NGT AS STRONG SHRTWV DROPS SEWD OUT OF NERN CO INTO KS. COULD PSBLY SEE ANOTHER MCC DVLP THU NGT/ERY FRI MRNG NR OUR FA. ANOTHER STRONG SHRTWV FCSTD TO DROPS SEWD OUT OF CO FRI NGT WHICH MAY SET UP ANOTHER MCC DVLPG OVR THE PNHDLS FRI NGT/SAT MRNG. UPR FLOW TRANSITIONS FM ZONAL/SWLY TNGT THRU TUE...TO NWLY WED THRU THE END OF THE WK INTO SAT AS UPR HIGH BUILDS OVR AZ AND NM. WL KEEP MENTION OF SLGT CHC POPS IN THE EXTENDED AS CNVTN MAY PROPAGATE OFF THE MTNS/HIER TRRN OF CO/NM. PRELIM CCF: AMA 059/078 055/084 059 0-3 GUY 056/077 053/083 058 -02 DHT 054/076 054/082 057 002 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SCHNEIDER/SLATTERY/WOLTERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-042200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 117 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL APPROACH THE PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A SURFACE LOW OVER THE EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO WILL MOVE OVER THE EASTERN PANHANDLES LATE TONIGHT. A COOL FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE PANHANDLES BY MORNING. A DRYLINE LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD MOVE OVER THE CENTRAL PANAHNDLES THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BY EARLY EVENING MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN PANHANDLES AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES AND THE DRYLINE PUSHES TOWARDS WESTERN OKLAHOMA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS MAINLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE DRYLINE. ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SLATTERY
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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.