Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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
- May 17, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Texas County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
868 WUUS54 KAMA 170607 SVRAMA OKC139-170700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 106 AM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN TEXAS COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF GUYMON TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF GUYMON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... GUYMON...ADAMS...BAKER...GOODWELL...HARDESTY...HOOKER...HOUGH... OPTIMA AND TYRONE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3700 10168 3651 10170 3651 10096 3700 10096
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 16, 10:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 10:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1010 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 ISSUED UPDT TO NRN ZONES...CALLING FOR AREAL QUALIFIERS FOR RW/TRW IN OK PNHDL AND NWRN TX PNHDL. BOOSTED POPS UP A NOTCH IN N-CNTRL AND NERN TX PNHDL ALSO. 88D INDCS CONTG DVLPMT OF CNVTN ALG AND AHD OF PRE-FRONTAL TROF. MODELS INDC THAT H5 VOT MAX WL TRAVERSE NRN ZNS TNGT AS TROF AND CDFNT MOV THRU...SO ACTIVITY SHOULD PRST AFT MDNT. NO CHANGES TO LATER PDS. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL/BROYLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 66 min |
Nearby
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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.