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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 2001Roberts County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 8:22 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2001, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 060122
TORAMA
TXC393-060200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
822 PM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 822 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 23 MILES WEST OF MIAMI...OR
  ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF PAMPA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STUORM INCLUDE...
  MIAMI AND HIGHWAY 70.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3581 10111 3562 10103 3565 10054 3605 10079

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	34 min
Jun 5, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	42 min
Jun 5, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	50 min
Jun 5, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	61 min
Jun 5, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	61 min
Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	45 min
Jun 5, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	35 min
Jun 6, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.