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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 27, 2002Potter County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 4:11 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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 27, 2002, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Potter County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 4:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Amarillo, 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 27, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 6 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: 1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 272111
TORAMA
TXC375-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
411 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 411 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY...
  OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF AMARILLO...MOVING SOUTH AT 45 MPH.

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON
3519 10179 3518 10164 3542 10163 3542 10183

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	56 min
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, 4:56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.