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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 9, 2001Dallam County, Hartley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2001, 7:18 PM CDT for Dallam County, Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
May 9, 2001, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1245 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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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 May 9, 6:29 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 6:29 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
629 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

UPDATED ZNS TO INCREASE POPS TO AREAL COVERAGE TERMS IN NE ZNS. LINE
OF STORMS ACROSS OK PNHDL STEADILY MOVING E INTO THAT AREA. LATEST
HAND/OBJ ANLYS SHOWS SECONDARY N/S CONVERGENCE LINE ACROSS ERN ZNS
WITH HIGHEST SFC BASED INSTABILITY TO THE E IN WRN OK. EXPECT
STORMS TO MAINTAIN INTENSITY OR STRENGTHEN AS THEY MOVE E INTO
BEAVER CO. SO FAR ONLY GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HV BEEN REPORTED.
OTHER MORE SCT STORMS ACROSS ERN NM MOVING E INTO WRN ZNS...CURRENT
POP COVERAGE IN W LOOKS GOOD.

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

COBB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every 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.