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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 3, 2003Deaf Smith County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 7:39 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 3, 2003, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Deaf Smith County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 433 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 040039
TORAMA
TXC117-040115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
739 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DEAF SMITH COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 739 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 SOUTHWEST OF SIMMS...OR
  ABOUT 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEREFORD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  HEREFORD...SIMMS AND DAWN

LAT...LON 3515 10299 3478 10274 3480 10219 3518 10218

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	2 hr
Jun 3, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	44 min
Jun 3, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	64 min
Jun 4, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	60 min
Jun 4, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam	57 min
Jun 4, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	63 min
Jun 4, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	80 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	62 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.