Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 7:04 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 26, 2002, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Donley County, TX
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 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KAMA 270004 SVRAMA TXC129-270100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 703 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DONLEY COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWARDWICK TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLARENDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CLARENDON...LELIA LAKE...GREENBELT LAKE...HOWARDWICK AND HEDLEY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3517 10102 3478 10102 3479 10057 3517 10059
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 26, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 235 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 AFTER THE PAST FEW MONTHS...I CANT BELIEVE I AM ABOUT TO PUT THIS ON PAPER...I AM ACTUALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. NOT ONLY IS THERE A CONCERN FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS A DRY LINE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. WHAT REMAINS OF A WARM FRONT IS DRAPED FROM THE SOUTH PLAINS TO JUST SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER. SATELLITE AND UPPER LEVEL ANALYSIS SHOWS A SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN MEXICO...WITH AN ASSOCIATED JET STREAK APPROACHING FAR WESTERN TEXAS. ALL OF THESE FEATURES WILL BE MAJOR PLAYERS IN PANHANDLE WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY FIRED ALONG THE DRY LINE OVER COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO...MATCHING WELL WITH THE AVN/ETA/MM5 FORECASTS. JET STREAK APPROACHING WEST TEXAS...AIDING LIFT ALONG THE DRY LINE...HELPING TO PRODUCE THE THUNDERSTORMS. SHORT RANGE MODELS AGREE THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS TONIGHT...WITH NEARLY EVERYONE HAVING A CHANCE OF MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL. THE AVN IS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE WITH RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES. THE ETA/MESOETA/MM5 ALL PRODUCE RAINFALL IN OUR AREA WITH MODEL QPF RANGING FROM 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH. THE AVN SUGGESTS AN MCS WILL FORM WITH MODEL QPF OF OVER 1 INCH. THE AVN SOLUTION IS REASONABLE (WITH QPF LIKELY OVERDONE)...WITH THUNDERSTORMS FIRING ALONG THE DRY LINE TONIGHT MIXING WITH AN INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET (40+ KTS) LEADING TO A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS BY MIDNIGHT. THE MCS WILL THEN MOVE MORE SOUTHERLY OVERNIGHT...BUT WITH WEAK UPPER LEVEL FLOW...THERE IS A POTENTIAL OF AREAS RECEIVING OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN. WITH THESE FACTORS IN MIND... AND NO PREFERRED AREAS SHOWING UP YET...WILL MENTION THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN ALL AREAS TONIGHT. AMA 58 78 55 79 / 70 60 40 40 DHT 55 77 54 78 / 50 40 30 30 .AMA... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. FOX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 62 min |
| May 27, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 35 min |
| May 27, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 54 min |
| May 27, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 64 min |
| May 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 111 min |
| May 27, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 58 min |
| May 27, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 63 min |
| May 27, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 55 min |
| May 27, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 64 min |
| May 27, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 63 min |
| May 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 58 min |
| May 27, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 34 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 34 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter | 45 min |
| May 27, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter | 42 min |
| May 27, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 34 min |
| May 27, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 58 min |
| May 27, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 57 min |
| May 27, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 33 min |
| May 27, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 33 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.