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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 9:12 PM CDT for Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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.
290 WFUS54 KAMA 160212 TORAMA TXC357-160315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 912 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OCHILTREE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRYTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ALSO...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN HANSFORD COUNTY WILL SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS OCHILTREE COUNTY. THE STORMS ALONG THIS LINE WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... PERRYTON...WOLF CREEK PARK...WAKA AND FARNSWORTH A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3649 10057 3647 10105 3608 10105 3610 10057 $$
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, 8:26 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, 9:21 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 |
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.