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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 20, 2001Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 min. 3 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: May 20, 2001, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 2001, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Texas County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 20, 10:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56 E	Guymon, OK	Power lines and power poles reported blown down.
May 20, 10:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 M	Goodwell, OK
May 20, 10:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 80 E	Hooker, OK	An old granary was picked up and dropped on drills...a garage was moved off its foundation...and a windmill was twisted beyond repair. The high winds also destroyed two grain bins blowing debris through other out buildings and twisting and folding the pipe TV

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 nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 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 210313
SVRAMA
OKC139-210415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1012 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1012 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF HOUGH...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ELKHART KANSAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  GUYMON...EVA...GOODWELL...HARDESTY...HOOKER...HOUGH AND OPTIMA

DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU CANNOT GET 
EUNDERGROUND...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY 
BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS!

LAT...LON 3698 10171 3685 10185 3684 10199 3666 10197
          3654 10154 3654 10105 3697 10116

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 20, 9:15 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 9:15 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
915 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001

ISSUED UPDT TO ZONES...ISSUING WND ADZY FOR ALL ZONES BUT SERN SXNS
OF TX PNHDL.  00Z SFC ANALYSIS INDCD VERY TIGHT PRES GRADIENT BHND
CDFNT...WITH 9 MB PER 3 HR PRES RISES OVR NERN CO.  TIGHT GRADIENT WL
DVLP/MOV SWD INTO FCST AREA DURG REST OF TNGT.  ALSO CALLED FOR AREAL
QUALIFIERS FOR TSTMS TNGT INSTEAD OF UNCERTAINTY TERMS.  PLENTY OF
CNVGNC ACMPYG CDFNT AND NOSE OF INCOMING H8 JETSTREAK.  NO CHANGES TO
LATER PDS.  03

.AMA...
TX...WND ADZY TONIGHT TX ZNS 01>10..11>13..16>18.
OK...WND ADZY TONIGHT OK ZNS 01>03.

COCKRELL/SLATTERY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	38 min
May 20, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 min
May 20, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	37 min
May 20, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.