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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT for Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 29, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Amarillo, TX | The tornado remained over open country and the path length and width were estimated. |
| May 29, 5:53 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Amarillo, TX | |
| May 29, 6:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Canyon, 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 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 292244 TORAMA TXC381-292330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 544 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RANDALL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF CANYON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CANYON...AMARILLO...BUFFALO LAKE...LAKE TANGLEWOOD...PALO DURO CANYON AND UMBARGER A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE )COVER NOW! ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3482 10214 3483 10166 3516 10165 3517 10212
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 47 min |
| May 29, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 50 min |
| May 29, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 60 min |
| May 29, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 22 min |
| May 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 39 min |
| May 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 61 min |
| May 29, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 52 min |
| May 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 47 min |
| May 29, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 54 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 48 min |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 45 min |
| May 29, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.