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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2001, 7:11 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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 28, 2001, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Moore County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Dumas, TX | |
| Jun 28, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dumas, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
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 28, 3:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 322 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001 PERSISTENT MID LEVEL LOW CONTINUES OVER THE ARKANSAS/MISSOURI STATE LINE THIS AFTERNOON. 12Z MODELS DEVELOP FAVORABLE 7H OMEGA FIELDS OVER PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLES DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STRONG CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG SURFACE TROUGH OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA. AIRMASS OVER THE FAR EASTERN PANHANDLES IS MODERATELY UNSTABLE WITH LAPS INDICATING CAPE VALUES AS HIGH AS 3500 J/KG OVER EASTERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY. CURRENT READINGS SHOWS TEMPERATURES APPROACHING THE UPPER 90S WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOW 60S. ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES. CURRENTLY THUNDERSTORMS ORGANIZING ALONG SURFACE TROUGH IN UNION COUNTY NEW MEXICO AND THE NORTHWEST ZONES. THIS CONVECTION MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THIS EVENING. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN AND/OR EASTERN ZONES DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MID LEVEL WINDS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY NORTHEAST TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. WEAK WIND SHIFT SHOULD PUSH THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA STARTING FRIDAY MORNING OVER THE NORTHERN ZONES. LITTLE OR NO COOLING NOTED IN THE 12Z ETA WITH TEMPS WARMING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WELL INTO THE 90S. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS FORECAST MOIST NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS DURING THE EXTENDED PERIODS SO FEEL COMPELLED TO INTRODUCE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY AND THURSDAY. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SLATTERY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 44 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.