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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 8:26 PM CDT for Moore County, Sherman County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 160126
TORAMA
TXC341-421-160230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
824 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
NORTHEASTERN MOORE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 824 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF SUNRAY...
OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUMAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
SUNRAY
A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.
LAT...LON 3611 10193 3594 10182 3594 10163 3649 10164
3649 10194
$$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, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 62 min |
| May 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 61 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.