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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 10:43 PM CDT for 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, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.
814 WFUS54 KAMA 160343 TORAMA TXC179-483-160445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1043 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS WHEELER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1043 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE LINE WAS LOCATED FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW MOBEETIE TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ALANREED...OR FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF MIAMI TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF CLARENDON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE... SHAMROCK...WHEELER...TWITTY...NEW MOBEETIE...MCLEAN...LELA... LEFORS...LAKE MCCLELLAN...KELLERVILLE...BRISCOE AND ALANREED A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3561 10093 3520 10096 3520 10002 3558 10004 $$
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, 9:30 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, 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.