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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 27, 2001Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 7:37 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 4 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 27, 2001, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lipscomb County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Follett, TX
May 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Lipscomb, TX
May 27, 8:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Darrouzett, TX
May 27, 8:31 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Lipscomb, 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 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 403 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

063 
WUUS54 KAMA 280038
SVRAMA
TXC295-280130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
737 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 737 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF DARROUZETT...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES SOUTH OF BEAVER...MOVING SOUTH AT 50 MPH.

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

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

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS TO AROUND 70 
MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING 
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3648 10003 3649 10054 3608 10051 3608 10003

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 27, 1:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
135 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

A COMPLICATED SITUATION IS IN PLACE FOR THE AREA AND WILL PUT
UNCERTAINTY IN THE TIMING OF EVENTS. RADAR SHOWS SOME LEFTOVER
BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS ACTIVITY. AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS
DIFFICULT TO PLACE BUT APPEARS TO BE NEAR OUR SOUTHERN ZONES. AT THE
SAME TIME...A DRYLINE IS POISED IN EASTERN NM AND SHOULD MOVE
EASTWARD INTO THE CWA BEFORE DARK. AN INSTABILITY LINE APPEARS
STRETCHED FROM SE CO TO SW KS AND INTO OK. THIS WILL PUT OUR NE IN
THE BEST CHANCE FOR ACTIVE WEATHER AS ALL THE INGREDIENTS COME
TOGETHER THIS EVENING.

THE AREA REMAINS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF NORTHWEST FLOW AND PLENTY OF
MOISTURE WILL STILL BE IN PLACE TO WORK ON MONDAY INTO TUESDAY. A
WAVE MOVES TOWARD THE AREA AT MIDWEEK AND PROVIDES FURTHER
OPPORTUNITY FOR STORMS.

NW FLOW ALOFT HANGS ON INTO THE LATE WEEK AS A WEAKER SYSTEM
SETTLES IN OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS. INDICATORS STILL SHOW A DRIER
LATE WEEK...SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES THERE.

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

WYNNE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	94 min
May 27, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	47 min
May 27, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	79 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.