Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Amarillo, TX

Issued

Jun 15, 2002, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT

In force

51 min

Issued by

NWS Amarillo, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS54 KAMA 152254
SVRAMA
TXC205-341-152345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
553 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARTLEY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
  MOORE COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF DUMAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  DUMAS...HARTLEY...FOUR WAY...SUNRAY AND CACTUS

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

DESTRUCTIVE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. IF YOU CANNOT GET UNDERGROUND...GO
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3603 10265 3568 10253 3567 10165 3605 10167

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
320 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

BUSY WITH GRIDS THIS AFTN SO DISCUSSION WILL BE SHORT. PSBL SIG SVR
WX EVENT...MAINLY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BEGINNING UPSTREAM
IN CO AND KS AND WILL HEAD SEWD THRU FCST AREA THIS EVENING AND
TNGT. LIKELY POPS ALL ZNS AND SVR WORDING MENTIONED. BREAK ON SUNDAY
AS ATMO RECOVERS WITH SOME MOUNTAIN STORMS TO THE W AND NW...HEADING
SEWD LATE SUN AFTN AND SUN EVENING. SLGHT CHC TO CHC REASONABLE.
LITTLE CHANGE FOR MON AND TUE AS SOME SEMBLANCE OF NW FLOW
CONTINUES. FLOW TRANSITIONS TO MORE OF A SW REGIME WED THRU END OF
WEEK AS TROF BEGINS HEADING INTO PAC NW AND UPPER RIDGE BUILDS
SLIGHTLY INTO AREA WITH AXIS E OF FCST AREA. WILL RETAIN SLGHT CHC
POPS FOR WED THRU SAT AT THIS TIME. WARMING TREND INTO MIDDLE AND
LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK LOOKS PLAUSIBLE. SVR WATCH BEING ISSUED NOW
SO WILL END.

.AMA...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

ANDRADE

In the hours before

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-152300-

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1241 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES.

AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL PERSIST
ACROSS THE PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH
ACROSS THE PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEAK
DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALSO MOVE
SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY
BEGUN TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS AND EASTERN COLORADO AS
OF EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. AS DAYTIME HEATING CONTINUES...THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE SETTING THE STAGE FOR
WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE
PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT.

THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS...PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO TRANSITION INTO A
LARGE COMPLEX THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN
HALF OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS ALL OF THE
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR
QUICK ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.

SD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.