Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 12:36 AM CST for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 12:36 AM CST (06:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Armstrong County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:48 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Wayside, 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 240637 SVRAMA TXC011-240730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1236 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ARMSTRONG COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1236 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYSIDE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF CLAUDE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CLAUDE...GOODNIGHT...WASHBURN AND WAYSIDE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...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 Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 826 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND TO ADD FOG TO ALL ZONES. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHWEST FROM DOWN-STATE. DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S ARE APPROACHING THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD FRONT JUST NOW MOVING EAST OF THE ROCKIES IN NEW MEXICO. SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO NEAR KLHX. STILL EXPECTING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO/WESTERN TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES LATER TONIGHT AS COLD FRONT INTERACTS WITH DEEP MOISTURE. UPPER LOW LOOKS LIKE IT IS NOW MAKING A MORE EASTWARD TRACK...SO STRONGER WINDS ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE TROUGH SHOULD START SPREADING ACROSS WEST TEXAS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. .AMA... TX...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY TXZ001>020. OK...HIGH WIND WATCH SATURDAY OKZ001>003. GOEHRING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 8:11 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
TXZ011-016-240300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 811 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001 TXZ011-016-240300- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED ALL COUNTIES IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 26. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HEREFORD...VEGA... NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. SCHNEIDER/GOEHRING/BILODEAU
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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.