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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 14, 2001Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2001, 9:35 PM CST for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
Mar 14, 2001, 9:35 PM CST (03:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2001, 10:30 PM CST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 14, 7:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 2001-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 166 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 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
166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 150336
SVRAMA
TXC295-150430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
935 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 935 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF DARROUZETT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTH OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  LIPSCOMB...DARROUZETT AND FOLLETT

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 
TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.x

LAT...LON 3648 10047 3613 10045 3616 9970 3647 9966

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 Mar 14, 8:23 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 8:23 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
823 PM CST WED MAR 14 2001

SFC PRES GRAD TIGHTENING UP THIS EVE AS A SFC LOW AND ASSOCD
CDFNT MOV THRU THE PNHDLS WHICH IS RESULTING IN INCRG NW TO NLY WNDS.
DECIDED TO ISSUE A WND ADVY FOR ALL OF THE FA TNGT AS THE TIGHTEST
GRAD STILL OVR SERN CO AND NERN NM ATTM.  CNVTN DVLPG ACRS THE
N-CNTRL AND ERN SXNS OF THE FA AND MENTIONED IT IN THE UPDATE.  WL
KEEP CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF WND ADVY FOR THU AS PREV SHIFT HAD
IT...BUT MIDNGT SHIFT MAY NEED TO LOOK AT INCLUDING MORE OF THE
NRN OR WRN SXNS.

.TX...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT TXZ001>020.
      WIND ADVISORY THURSDAY TXZ003>005-009-010.
.OK...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT OKZ001>003.
      WIND ADVISORY THURSDAY OKZ002-003.

SCHNEIDER/GOEHRING

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.