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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gray County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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, 8:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Lefors, TX | |
| May 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Lefors, 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 |
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1261 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 300045 TORAMA TXC179-300145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 745 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRAY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF WHITE DEER. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINGSMILL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF PANHANDLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GROOM MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE... KINGSMILL...PAMPA...ALANREED...HEATON...HOOVER...LAKE MCCLELLAN...LEFORS...BOYDSTON AND MCLEAN A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3561 10107 3519 10108 3520 10055 3562 10055
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 AMS OVR PNHDLS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND IS SHEARED WELL. H5 VOT MAX WITH ASSOCD COLD POOL MOVG TWD WRN ZNS ATTM. LOW-LVL MSTR FLUX CNVGNC IS MAXIMIZED OVR WRN ZNS. AREAL QUALIFIERS WILL BE USED ALL SXNS 1ST PD. WSHFT EXPCD LATE TNGT. NELY SFC WNDS ON WED WL BRING MORE STABLE AIR INTO AREA WITH LITTLE CNVGNC OVR AREA. WL REMOVE POPS WED FM ALL BUT ERN ZNS WHERE SOME PCPN MAY LINGER DURG MRNG. ALSO REMOVED POPS FOR WED NGT AS SFC RDG BUILDS INTO AREA. SOME RECOVERY OF MSTR PSBL FOR THU AND THU NGT OVR WRN ZNS...SO INTRODUCED SLGT CHC POPS THOSE LOCATIONS. WL KEEP EXTDD DRY AS WK TO MDT NWLY FLOW PVLS. 03 .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 29, 1:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
156 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1059 AM CONLEN TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/29/01 DALLAM REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER.
0130 PM 15 E FORGAN OK .75 INCH HAIL
05/29/01 BEAVER REPORTED BY BEAVER EOC.
KP/TSSpecial weather statement, May 29, 7:32 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-300600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATED WATCH INFORMATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 732 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 1 AM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 319 FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH AND FOR THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...CIMARRON. A TORNADO WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE UNTIL 1 AM CDT. WATCH NUMBER 321 IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...SHERMAN... HANSFORD...OCHILTREE...LIPSCOMB...MOORE...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS... HEMPHILL...POTTER...CARSON...GRAY...WHEELER...RANDALL...ARMSTRONG... DONLEY...COLLINGSWORTH AND IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...TEXAS AND BEAVER. GARCIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 38 min |
| May 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 61 min |
| May 29, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 38 min |
| May 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 50 min |
| May 29, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 38 min |
| May 29, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 52 min |
| May 29, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 46 min |
| May 30, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 51 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.