Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 8:26 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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
- Jun 20, 2001, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hutchinson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 20, 8:58 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Pringle, TX | |
| Jun 20, 8:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Pringle, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2356 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 210127 SVRAMA TXC233-210200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 826 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 826 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF PRINGLE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF BORGER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... BORGER...FRITCH...PRINGLE...SANFORD AND STINNETT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBYSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3604 10159 3564 10161 3564 10111 3604 10110
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 20, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT WED JUN 20 2001 FRONTAL BNDRY HAS ONCE AGAIN MOVD ACRS AMA...MOST RECENTLY AS A WMFNT. WMFNT EXTDS FM SWRN TX PNHDL TO NWRN OK. EXPC THIS BNDRY TO BCM SHARPER WITH CNVGN INCRG UPON IT DURG THE NGT AS IT MOVS FARTHER NWD TO NRN SXNS OF FCST AREA...AND THEN BGNS SURGING SWD AS A CDFNT BFR SR. CNVGNC...DEEP UPSLP COMPONENT INCRG...SFC DWPTS POOLING ON N SIDE OF FNT ALL POINT TWD GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR TSTMS ACRS PNHDLS TNGT. UPR LVL DVGNC WL BE STRONGEST ACRS NRN ZNS AS H5 VOT MAX DROPS SEWD ACRS AREA. THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE BEING FCST INDCS ADDED POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZED TSTMS SUPPORTED BY WAA. H8 CDFNT WL MOV SWD ACRS PNHDLS BTN 04Z AND 12Z...WITH ADDITIONAL CNVGNC ALG IT. HVY RAINS TNGT PSBL ACRS NERN ZNS IF MCS DVLPS OVR ERN CO AND MOVS SEWD. NMRS TSTMS FCST TNGT IN NERN ZNS WITH SCT TSTMS FCST ELSEWHERE. ON THU...CLDS WL LINGER OVR SRN ZNS DURG MRNG AS UPSLP FLOW PVLS. GREATEST INSTBY WL BE OVR WRN AND SRN ZNS IN AREA MOST REMOVED FM INCOMING SFC RDG BHND CDNFT. WL KEEP SLGT CHC TSTMS IN WRN ZNS THU AFTN AND EVE...AND WL REMOVE FM OTHER SXNS. SLY FLOW RESUMES ON FRI WITH WARMUP BGNG. INSTBY RETURNS AND WL RETAIN SLGT CHC TSTMS FRI AND FRI NGT. DURG EXTDD...NO MAJOR DEPARTURE FM PREVIOUS FCST. WM CONDS WITH RESIDUAL LOW-LVL MSTR WITH SLGT CHC DIURNAL TSTMS. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. O?K...NONE. COCKRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 8:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 118 min |
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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.