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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 16, 2002Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2002, 8:23 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2002, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.

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: 570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 170123
SVRAMA
TXC233-170200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
820 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 820 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PRINGLE TO 5 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF STINNETT TO 10 MILES EAST OF BORGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  PRINGLE

DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW GO TO THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3605 10161 3588 10161 3578 10140 3564 10128
          3563 10110 3605 10108 3606 10123

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	38 min
May 16, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore	55 min
May 16, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	62 min
May 16, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	60 min
May 16, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	55 min
May 16, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	51 min
May 16, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	48 min
May 16, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	51 min
May 16, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	44 min
May 16, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	82 min
May 16, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	57 min
May 16, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	26 min
May 17, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	45 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.