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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Amarillo, TX

September 10, 2003Collingsworth County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2003, 7:19 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: Sep 10, 2003, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Collingsworth County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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
Sep 10, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 110019
TORAMA
TXC087-110100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
719 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOZIER...OR
  ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF SHAMROCK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  SAMNORWOOD...LUTIE AND DOZIER

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3517 10053 3491 10053 3491 10001 3518 10001

$$

05/14

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	62 min
Sep 10, 8:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	3 hr
Sep 10, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	61 min
Sep 10, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	3 hr
Sep 10, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	64 min
Sep 10, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	62 min
Sep 10, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	4 hr
Sep 10, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	57 min
Sep 10, 11:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	4 hr

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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.