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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 10, 2001Gray County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 10:49 PM CDT for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2001, 10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 11:50 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gray County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 10, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 110352
SVRAMA
TXC179-110450-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1049 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRAY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 1150 PM CDT

* AT 1049 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LAKE MCCLELLAN...OR ABOUT 19
  MILES SOUTH OF PAMPA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  PAMPA...ALANREED...KINGSMILL...LAKE MCCLELLAN...LEFORS AND         
  MCLEAN...AND ALONG INTERSTATE 40 AND HIGHWAY 70.

LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS 
OF 60 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE 
COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3518 10109 3519 10056 3561 10054 3564 10109

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 Apr 10, 3:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
345 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

SFC WAVE IS OVR N-CNTRL KS ATTM...SE OF HLC.  DRYLN EXTDS SWWD FM
THIS LOW THRU NWRN CORNER OF OK...TO JUST E OF AMA...TO JUST W OF
HOB.  SFC WAVE HAS TROF AXIS WHICH DIPS SWWD INTO WRN OK PNHDL...
THEN ARCS NWWD TO SFC LOW OVR CNTRL CO...NR LXV.  THIS LOW HAS BEEN
DEEPENING SGFNTLY DURG DAY WITH SFC TROF EXTDG SWD FM SAME THRU
CNTRL NM TO NR ELP.  PAC CDFNT MOVG THRU WRN NM...WITH -SN NOTED
OVR HIR SXNS OF AZ.  H5 LOW CURRENTLY NR CNTRL AZ...WITH COLD POOL
...STG DYNAMICS...AND DIFFLUENT FLOW...OVR AREA OF PRES FALLS...
CNTRL CO THRU SWRN NM.  DRYLN EXPCD TO RETREAT THIS EVE DUE TO
APCHG DYANMICS.

WITH INSTBY AND SHEAR EXPCD TO INCR OVR ERN ZNS...WL FCST NMRS TSTMS.
OVR CNTRL ZNS WL FCST SCT TSTMS...AND WL KEEP SLGT CHC TSTMS GOING
OVR WRN ZNS.  SVR TSTMS EXPCD...SPLY OVR ERN ZNS.  DRYLN...SFC
TROF...AND PAC CDFNT WL ALL MOV THRU PNHDLS BY ARND 06Z...WITH CNVGNC
INCRG THIS EVE.  PRES GRADIENT WL TIGHTEN ENOUGH TO WARRANT ISSUANCE
OF WND ADZY TNGT...AND WL LIKELY BE NEEDED THRU WED MRNG AS WELL.

WED NGT THRU TUE EXPCD TO BE UNEVENTFUL AS H5 FLOW TRENDS TO ZONAL...
AND THEN BACKS AGAIN AHEAD OF NEXT TROF ERY NEXT WK.  WK CDFNT MAY
ENTER FCST AREA ON TUE...BUT MSTR RTRN NOT ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO
FROPA.  03

.AMA...
TX...WIND ADVISORY TNGT TX ZNS 01>20.
OK...WIND ADVISORY TNGT OK ZNS 01>03.

COCKRELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	32 min
Apr 10, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore, Potter	48 min
Apr 10, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	65 min
Apr 10, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	33 min
Apr 10, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford	35 min
Apr 10, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	54 min
Apr 10, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	68 min
Apr 10, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	68 min
Apr 10, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.