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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 2001, 3:56 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2001, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 Oct 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 226 PM CDT MON OCT 8 2001 ELEVATED SHOWERS AND T-STORMS OUT THE WINDOW SHOWS THE MID LEVEL LIFT AND MOISTURE VERY WELL. SURFACE MOISTURE IS RETURNING ACROSS THE EASTERN PANHANDLES AND WESTERN OKLAHOMA TODAY. SURFACE TROUGH SHOULD REMAIN ACROSS SOUTHEAST COLORADO INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. THE TROUGH WILL THEN PUSH EAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLES ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS UPPER WAVE FROM ARIZONA MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA. OVER ALL...BEST CHANCE POPS LOOK GOOD FOR THE EAST THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE BEST MOISTURE AND BEST DIVERGENCE ALOFT IS FOUND THERE. COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE PANHANDLES TUESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY SHOULD BE A MUCH COOLER DAY AND WE WILL PROBABLY MENTION A BIT CLOUDIER DAY THAN THE CURRENT FORECAST. WE WILL LEAVE THE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN AS DYNAMICS ALOFT MAY HELP WITH UPSLOPE ON THE SURFACE TO SQUEEZE OUT SOME SHOWERS. WILL NOT CHANGE MUCH TO THE FORECAST BEYOND WEDNESDAY AS IT HAS THE SITUATION COVERED WELL. THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ALSO DO NOT AGREE TOO WELL ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...SO WILL CONTINUE WITH PERSISTENCE. A FEW NUMBERS TO PONDER: AMA 55/82 49/61 39 202 DHT 52/79 47/58 37 202 BVR 59/84 52/62 39 423 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. GOEHRING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.