Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2002, 11:07 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2002, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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 23, 11:15 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Miami, TX | |
| May 23, 11:18 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Miami, TX | |
| May 23, 11:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Miami, TX | |
| May 23, 11:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Miami, TX | |
| May 23, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Miami, TX | Two homes received moderate damage from the tornado while several storage sheds and a detached garage were completely destroyed. A few trees were snapped and numerous power poles were downed. No injuries or deaths were reported. One person whose home was st |
| May 23, 11:30 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Miami, TX | Golfball to tea cup size hail caused considerable damage to vehicles...windows and roofs. |
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.
Did it verify
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.
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 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 240407 SVRAMA TXC393-240445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1106 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1106 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL ROBERTS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIAMI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM-TAKE COVER NOW. GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS 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 3582 10103 3569 10087 3590 10059 3604 10085 SLATTERY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 2:55 PM CDT, 8 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:55 PM CDT, 8 hours 12 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 255 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2002 LATEST ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THAT COLD FRONT HAS STALLED OVER CNTRL ZNS AS A NEW SFC LOW GETS BETTER ORGANIZED BETWEEN KROW AND KCVS AS HINTED BY ETA MODEL. THIS SFC LOW IS PROGGED BY ALL SHORT RANGE MODELS TO TRACK NEWD THRU FCST AREA TNGT AND FRI...WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACTUALLY RETREATING NWD TO NRN ZNS IN ACCORDANCE WITH 12Z ETA/AVN/NGM...THEN MOVG SWD AGAIN LATER FRI AND FRI NIGHT...OUT OF THE PNHDLS BY 12Z SAT. WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY HIGHEST POPS NERN HALF TNGT...SLGT CHC ALL ZNS FRI...CHC POPS FRI NIGHT THRU THE MEMORIAL WEEKEND. UA PATTERN FEATURES BROAD WSW FLOW WITH EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES ZIPPING ACROSS ON OCCASION. COMBINATION OF MOISTURE... WEAK IMPULSES AND PROXIMITY OF SFC BOUNDARIES WARRANTS THE CHC POPS THRU WEEKEND...AGAIN FAIRLY TYPICAL OF CLIMATOLOGY OF LATE MAY HERE ON SRN HI PLAINS. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS TEND TO AGREE ON BROAD WSW FLOW ALOFT CONTINUING INTO TUE BEFORE HEIGHTS RISE AND RIDGING OCCURS OVER WRN US. DEPENDING ON RIDGE AXIS...COULD SEE SOME SORT OF NW FLOW OVER PNHDLS WED AND THU WHICH ALWAYS RAISES A CONCERN OF NW FLOW WX EVENTS. WILL MAINTAIN THE CHC POPS FOR WED AND ADD THU IN AS WELL DUE TO THAT PSBLTY BASED ON SOME SEMBLANCE OF MEDIUM RANGE MODEL AGREEMENT...EXCEPTION BEING THE ECMWF WHICH HOLDS ON TO SLIGHTLY LOWER HEIGHTS A BIT LONGER. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. ANDRADE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 23, 10:52 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
>OKZ002-003-TXZ002>005-007>010-014-015-240800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1052 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2002 OKZ002-003-TXZ002-240800- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CLEARED A PORTION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 323. COUNTIES CLEARED INCLUDE: IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: TEXAS...BEAVER... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: SHERMAN... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BEAVER...GUYMON...STRATFORD... TXZ003>005-007>010-014-015-240800- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 323 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 300 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: HANSFORD...OCHILTREE...LIPSCOMB...MOORE...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS... HEMPHILL...GRAY...WHEELER... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BOOKER...BORGER...CANADIAN...DUMAS... MIAMI...PAMPA...PERRYTON...SHAMROCK...SPEARMAN...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 30 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree | 62 min |
| May 23, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 26 min |
| May 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 31 min |
| May 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 30 min |
| May 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts | 57 min |
| May 23, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts | 49 min |
| May 23, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Roberts | 43 min |
| May 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 45 min |
| May 24, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 63 min |
| May 24, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 66 min |
| May 24, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 30 min |
| May 24, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 26 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.