Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2001, 8:34 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 24, 2001, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Booker, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
608 WUUS54 KAMA 250135 SVRAMA TXC295-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 834 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 834 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARROUZETT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... DARROUZETT AND BOOKER LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
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 Aug 24, 1:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 1:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 44 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 150 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001 SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED WEAK LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. AT UPPER-LEVELS...A WEAK SHORTWAVE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FEATURE COUPLED WITH FAIRLY STRONG INSTABILITY WILL MAKE INITIATION PROBABLE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON WITH STORMS CONTINUING THIS EVENING. THE SYSTEM WILL EXIT TO THE SOUTH TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT SAGS SOUTH INTO THE PANHANDLES. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WITH COLD AIR ADVECTION SLOWLY INCREASING. A SECOND VORT MAX WILL PUSH SOUTH OUT OF SOUTHERN COLORADO SATURDAY WITH CONVECTION FIRING UP ALONG THE FRONT SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. STORMS MAY CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY ESPECIALLY IN THE WESTERN ZONES WITH INFLUENCE FROM SHORTWAVE ACTIVITY REMAINING POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE MONDAY AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATES. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PERSIST ALOFT WITH STORM CHANCES CONTINUING AS AN THE OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY GRADUALLY GETS WASHED OUT TO THE SOUTH. BY TUESDAY NIGHT...A LEE TROUGH SHOULD GET GOING...RETURNING WINDS TO THE SOUTHWEST. THIS MAY DRY THINGS OUT A BIT WEDNESDAY IN BETWEEN WAVES ALOFT. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT PUSHING DOWN THURSDAY WITH PERSISTENT NORTHWEST FLOW WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS IN THE FORECAST THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. AMA 65/90 62/84 59 323 DHT 62/88 60/82 57 222 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. CB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
537 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM HOWARDWICK TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 DONLEY REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
JWSpecial weather statement, Aug 24, 7:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
OKZ003-TXZ004-005-009-010-013>015-018>020-250300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 707 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED ALL COUNTIES IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 694. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: BEAVER... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: OCHILTREE...LIPSCOMB...ROBERTS...HEMPHILL...CARSON...GRAY... WHEELER...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY...COLLINGSWORTH... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BEAVER...BOOKER...CANADIAN... CLARENDON...CLAUDE...MIAMI...PAMPA...PANHANDLE...PERRYTON... SHAMROCK...WELLINGTON... JRC
Local storm report, Aug 24, 7:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
725 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM HOWARDWICK TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 DONLEY REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
0542 PM GREENBELT LAKE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 DONLEY REPORTED BY COUNTY S.O.
0551 PM GREENBELT LAKE TX .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 DONLEY REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
0556 PM 1E GREENBELT LAKE TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 DONLEY REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
0645 PM DARROUZETT TX .75 INCH HAIL
08/24/01 LIPSCOMB REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
JWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 66 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.