Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2001, 10:25 AM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 19, 2001, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2001, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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 19, 10:30 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Miami, TX | |
| May 19, 10:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Miami, TX | |
| May 19, 10:45 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Miami, TX | The tornado remained over open country and the path length and width were estimated. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 2851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 18.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 191526 TORAMA TXC393-191600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1025 AM CDT SAT MAY 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT * AT 1025 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIAMI... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... MIAMI AND LORA A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3593 10074 3563 10088 3562 10055 3592 10055
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 59 min |
| May 19, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 46 min |
| May 19, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 61 min |
| May 19, 12:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 37 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.