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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 16, 2004Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2004, 9:24 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 96 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2004, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Moore County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 9:27 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	7 N Dumas, TX

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 16, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 1653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KAMA 170224
SVRAMA
TXC341-170400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
923 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MOORE COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 923 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CACTUS TO 10
  MILES NORTHWEST OF DUMAS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  DUMAS...SUNRAY...FOUR WAY AND CACTUS

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3605 10216 3599 10214 3566 10214 3565 10166
      3587 10165 3604 10163

$$

KRAMAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam	64 min
Jun 16, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	56 min
Jun 16, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	84 min
Jun 16, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	85 min
Jun 16, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	26 min
Jun 16, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	55 min
Jun 16, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	58 min
Jun 16, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	53 min
Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	60 min
Jun 16, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	64 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	47 min
Jun 17, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	48 min
Jun 17, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	63 min
Jun 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	45 min
Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	55 min
Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	46 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	53 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	38 min
Jun 17, 6:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	83 min
Jun 17, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	59 min
Jun 17, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	58 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	54 min
Jun 17, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	50 min
Jun 17, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.