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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 160230
TORAMA
TXC393-160330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
930 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ROBERTS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 930 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 36 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIAMI TO 35 MILES
WEST OF MIAMI...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. CONDITIONS ARE VERY FAVORBALE
FOR THE FORMATION OF TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN ROBERTS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE
SHELTER UNTIL THE LINE OF STORMS CLEARS THE COUNTY.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
MIAMI
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3592 10054 3566 10056 3566 10106 3605 10104
3606 10054
$$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, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 63 min |
| May 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 54 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.