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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 8:13 PM CDT for Donley County, Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 15, 2003, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.0
- Supercell composite
- 19.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KAMA 160113
TORAMA
TXC129-179-483-160215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
812 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
WHEELER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
NORTHEASTERN DONLEY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCLEAN...OR
ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF SHAMROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
SHAMROCK...WHEELER...TWITTY...MCLEAN...LELA AND KELLERVILLE
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3521 10001 3519 10052 3510 10054 3506 10071
3531 10068 3561 10002
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 66 min |
| May 15, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 29 min |
| May 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 57 min |
| May 15, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 54 min |
| May 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 61 min |
| May 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 64 min |
| May 15, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 47 min |
| May 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 60 min |
| May 15, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 44 min |
| May 15, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 63 min |
| May 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 54 min |
| May 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 60 min |
| May 15, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 61 min |
| May 15, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 29 min |
| May 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 67 min |
| May 15, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 61 min |
| May 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 62 min |
| May 15, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 57 min |
| May 15, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.