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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 2001Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 11:55 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 5, 2001, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2001, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 060457
SVRAMA
TXC483-060530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1155 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1155 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER EAST
  CENTRAL WHEELER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHAMROCK...
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED PING PONG SIZE HAIL 2 MILES EAST 
OF WHEELER.

DESTRUCTIVE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM-TAKE COVER NOW. GO
TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS.

LAT...LON 3553 10021 3533 10028 3526 10000 3549 10000

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 5, 2:45 PM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
245 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED COLD FRONT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE WITH DRYLINE EXTENDING FROM FRONT SOUTHWARD THROUGH WEST
TEXAS. STRATUS BEHIND FRONT HAS KEPT MUCH OF THE NORTHERN
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FROM WARMING TODAY BUT IN SOUTHERN ZONES...
TEMPS REACHING WELL INTO THE 80S AND LOWER 90S. AS A RESULT...AIRMASS
BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE WITH CAPES REACHING 2400 J/KG AT THIS
TIME IN THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN ZONES. THE FRONT WILL INCH ITS WAY
NORTHWARD THIS EVENING ALLOWING INSTABILITY AXIS TO EXPAND INTO THE
NORTHEASTERN ZONES AS WELL.  WILL PLACE THE HIGHEST POPS...60
PERCENT...IN THE NORTHEAST ZONES WHERE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE
LOCATED AND SERVE AS FOCUS.  WESTERN ZONES ARE IN A LESS FAVORABLE
ENVIRONMENT FOR CONVECTION BUT WILL NOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT
THUNDERSTORMS SINCE DRYLINE WILL SLOSH BACK WEST LATER TONIGHT.
LOW CLOUDS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOST OF THE AREA LATE
TONIGHT.  THE LOW CLOUDS MAY LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH
THE MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW.  THIS WILL INHIBIT DAYTIME HEATING ON
WEDNESDAY BUT WITH UPSLOPE AND MOISTURE IN PLACE...WILL CONTINUE WITH
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS.

FOR THE LATER HALF OF THE WEEK INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...UPPER RIDGE
EXPECTED TO BUILD OVER THE REGION.  WEAK SHORTWAVES IN THE
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT LIKELY TO AFFECT THE PANHANDL/ES EACH DAY.  WILL
KEEP LOW POPS AND WARMING TREND GOING AS PER PREVIOUS PACKAGE.

AMA EB 60/84 60/86 60 223
DHT EB 55/82 59/84 59 223

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

SP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1039 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0825 PM    23 W MIAMI                TX   TORNADO
06/05/01   ROBERTS                        RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0855 PM    7 W HIGGINS               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   LIPSCOMB                       RPTD BY LIPSCOMB CO S.O.

RTW

Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1046 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0820 PM    4 E CANADIAN              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HEMPHILL                       RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0820 PM    4 E CANADIAN              TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   HEMPHILL                       1.25 INCH TREE BRANCH
                                          DOWN. RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0825 PM    23 W MIAMI                TX   TORNADO
06/05/01   ROBERTS                        RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0855 PM    7 W HIGGINS               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   LIPSCOMB                       RPTD BY LIPSCOMB CO S.O.

RTW

Local storm report, Jun 5, 10:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1047 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0820 PM    4 E CANADIAN              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   HEMPHILL                       RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0820 PM    4 E CANADIAN              TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/01   HEMPHILL                       1.25 INCH TREE BRANCH
                                          DOWN. RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0825 PM    23 W MIAMI                TX   TORNADO
06/05/01   ROBERTS                        RPTD BY ARES SPOTTER.

0855 PM    7 W HIGGINS               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/01   LIPSCOMB                       RPTD BY LIPSCOMB CO S.O.

RTW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	34 min
Jun 5, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	38 min
Jun 5, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	42 min
Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	50 min
Jun 5, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	61 min
Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	61 min
Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	45 min
Jun 6, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.