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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 30, 2001Carson County, Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2001, 7:09 PM CDT for Carson County, Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 4 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 2001, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Carson County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 30, 7:21 PM CDTHail 1.75Skellytown, TX
Apr 30, 7:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Skellytown, TX
Apr 30, 7:26 PM CDTHail 1.75Skellytown, TX
Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Borger, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 30, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 85 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 010010
SVRAMA
TXC065-233-010115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
709 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
  NORTHERN CARSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF SKELLYTOWN...MOVING         
  SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BORGER...FRITCH...SANFORD AND SKELLYTOWN

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTE=D WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3546 10162 3546 10112 3581 10110 3573 10161

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 30, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
425 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

MAIN MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE PASSING WELL TO THE NORTH OF RGN TODAY HAS
BEEN UNDERGOING SHEAR ALONG ITS BASE WITH ENERGY BEING DRAWN BACK SW
OVER THE PNHDLS. MEANWHILE...WEAK SFC TROUGH HAS REMAINED NEARLY
STATIONARY MOST OF THE DAY...MEANDERING FROM N CNTRL KS...SSWWD
ACROSS THE PNHDLS AND INTO SERN NM.

ABOVE FACTORS COMBINED WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY...HAVE DECIDED TO
CONTINUE FIRST PERIOD FCST ALONG SAME LINES AS AFTN UPDATE...I.E.
SLIGHT CHANCE/CHANCE OF EARLY EVENG SHRA AND TSRA. INCREASING SWLY
DOWNSLOPE FLOW WILL COMBINE WITH MID-LVL THERMAL RIDGE OVER HIER
TRRN OF NM ON TUE TO CREATE VERY WARM DAY FOR THE PNHDLS. HOWEVER...
WARM TEMPS WILL BE SHORT-LIVED AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO
REVISIT THE AREA BY LATE WED. SHORT RANGE MODELS FCST THIS SCENARIO
TO VARYING DEGREES WITH THE ETA FARTHEST SOUTH FRONTAL MOVEMENT.
THEREFORE...CONFIDENCE REMAINS MODERATE AT BEST REGARDING FRONT/S
MOVEMENT. AT THIS TIME...BELIEVE THAT FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH ACROSS
THE OK PNHDL WED MORNG AND THE TX PNHDL WED AFTN. MEANWHILE...
SHORTWAVE MOVING E ACROSS THE NERN PACIFIC WILL DIVE SE AND DEEPEN
IN WAKE OF CURRENT NRN STREAM WAVE. BY EARLY THU...SAID WAVE SHOULD
BE CUTOFF OVER NRN AZ. MOVEMENT OF CLOSED LOW WILL BE RATHER SLOW...
PERHAPS NOT LIFTING OUT UNTIL LATE SAT. THIS MAY VERY WELL SET THE
STAGE FOR THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THE TX/OK PNHDLS
HAS EXPERIENCED IN A WHILE...PARTICULARLY IF SFC FRONT STALLS ACROSS
THE FAR SRN TX PNHDL. COLD FRONT MAY LIFT BACK N AS WARM FRONT BY
FRI WITH DRYLINE DEVELOPING BY MID-DAY WITH CHANCE FOR STRONG
CONVECTION.

CONFIDENCE DIMINISHES CONSIDERABLY DURING THE SECOND HALF FO THE
EXTENDED AS LATEST MEDIUM RANGE MODELS BEGIN TO DIVERGE BY SAT.
ASIDE FROM MAINTAINING PERSISTENCE INTO MON...LITTLE CHANGE IN THE
FCST.

.AGMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

JH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 30, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ012-017-010300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
541 PM CDT MON APR 30 2001

TXZ012-017-010300-
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 181. COUNTIES CLEARED
INCLUDE:

IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE:
POTTER...RANDALL...

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AMARILLO...CANYON...

SCHNEIDER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson47 min
Apr 30, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson33 min
Apr 30, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson38 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.