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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2001, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hemphill County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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 27, 9:22 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Canadian, TX | |
| May 27, 9:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Canadian, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 2008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 280213 TORAMA TXC211-280300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 913 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HEMPHILL COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF CANADIAN...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CANADIAN AND MENDOTA. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3605 10004 3604 10054 3566 10053 3565 10003
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 53 min |
| May 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 94 min |
| May 27, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 79 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.