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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 23, 2002Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2002, 7:49 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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 23, 2002, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 240049
TORAMA
TXC233-240115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 748 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STINNETT...OR
  ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BORGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  STINNETT AND BORGER.

A MULTIPLE FUNNELS AND TENNIS BALL HAIL HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED 
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. 

LAT...LON 3575 10151 3566 10133 3576 10114 3591 10144

SLATTERY

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, 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, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.