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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 9:34 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2001, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Dumas, TX | |
| May 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dumas, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 2379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 SFC LOW TAKING SHAPE OVR WRN OK PNHDL ATTM WITH CIRCULATION EXTDG UPWARD TO H8. WMFNT EXTDS SEWD FM LOW TO NR CDS. DRYLN CLIPS NWRN CORNER OF TX PNHDL AND EXTDS THRU ERN NM W OF TCC AND ROW...WHERE ANOTHER SFC LOW DVLPG. SHALLOW CU FIELD DVLPG OVR SRN TX PNHDL. EXPC FURTHER DVLPMT OF CU AS WAA CONTS VCNTY AXIS OF HIR CAPES RUNNING N-S THRU WRN HALF OF FCST AREA. DEEP MSTR FLUX CNVGNC IS ALSO ALIGNED SIMILARLY. WITH CNVTV TEMPS ABOUT TO BE REACHED...WK VOT MAX APCHG IN NWLY FLOW ALF...AND RESPECTABLE DIRECTIONAL SHEAR IN PLACE...WL FCST NMRS TSTMS TNGT. PSBL SVR WL BE MENTIONED DUE TO ABOVE FACTORS AND INCRG INSTBY. SRN SFC LOW NR ROW FCST TO DEEPEN AND MOV EWD DURG NGT...KEEPING MSTR FEED AND UPSLP COMPONENT OVR PNHDLS. DEEPENING SFC PRESSURES OVR ERN NM ON SUN WL KEEP MSTR...INSTBY SUPPLIED TO PNHDLS. BY LATE AFTN SUN...DRYLN WL LIE ACRS WRN ZNS...WITH WMFNT RUNNING NW-SE ACRS FCST AREA...SO LATE AFTN/EVE/NGT TIME TSTMS A GOOD BET. MCS COULD DVLP OVR SERN CO AND TRACK SEWD ALG WMFNT AS NOTED BY PREV FCSTR. COOLER CONDS ON MON AS BNDRY MOVS SWD AND UPSLP FLOW PVLS. CHC POPS STILL IN ORDER FOR MON AND MON NGT AS DRYLN SETS UP AGAIN OVR WRN ZNS...AND H5 FLOW TRANSITIONS TO SWLY. TUE AND WED LOOK FAVORABLE FOR CNVTN AS H5 SHTWV TROF PASSES OVHD SO HAVE BOOSTED TO CHC POPS. H5 FLOW TURNS TO NWLY AGAIN WED AS NERN PAC CLOSED LOW CROSSES RCKYS. AFT UPSLP DMSHS ON THU...SFC RDG BUILDS SWD THRU PLAINS...CUTTING OFF MSTR FEED. DRY AND WMR ON FRI AND SAT AS SWRN U.S. H5 RDG BUILDS. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NOVNE. COCKRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 65 min |
| May 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 62 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 71 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.