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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 23, 2002Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2002, 6:21 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 5 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, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 6:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Follett, TX
May 23, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Follett, TX	Tornado occurred over open country and no damage was reported. The tornado path length and width were estimated.
May 23, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Follett, TX
May 23, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 2	Follett, TX
May 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Hail 1	Follett, 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 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.

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: 608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 232321
TORAMA
TXC295-232345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
621 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 620 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM 
  WAS LOCATED NEAR FOLLETT MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* AT 558 PM CDT...A BRIEF TORNADO WAS REPORTED 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  DARROUZETT.

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

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. 

LAT...LON 3647 10035 3634 10020 3637 10004 3649 10003

SLATTERY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	43 min
May 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	36 min
May 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	63 min
May 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	49 min
May 23, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	27 min
May 23, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	55 min

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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.