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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 17, 2004Roberts County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2004, 8:57 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2004, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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
Jun 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.

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: 676 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 6.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 17, 3:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
337 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

.DISCUSSION...
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SHOWS UP NICELY ON THE KAMA 88-D RADAR THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. COLD FRONT STRETCHES
FROM SOUTHWEST KANSAS BACK INTO SOUTHEAST COLORADO. TEMPERATURES
AND SURFACE WINDS WERE SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM LAST NIGHT/S
CONVECTION. 18Z SOUNDING FROM KAMA SHOWS THAT MOISTURE HAS DEEPENED
OVER YESTERDAY. WIND SHEAR IS ALSO A LITTLE BIT BETTER ORGANIZED
COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. SO FACTORS ARE COMING TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER
SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE ACROSS THE AREA. LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD ALSO
ENHANCE THE SHEAR AS THE MCS DEVELOPS AND MOVES THROUGH SOUTHWEST
KANSAS/PANHANDLES LATER THIS EVENING.

FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE ZONAL AND SOMEWHAT NORTHWEST THROUGH THIS
WEEKEND. CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD KEEP ROLLING OFF OF THE
MOUNTAINS AND THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON/S AND
EVENING/S.

FLOW ALOFT WEAKENS EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT STILL REMAINS ZONAL...SO
SEE NO REASON WHY THE THUNDERSTORM TRAIN WOULD END. BY MID WEEK
NEXT WEEK...MODELS HINT THAT A RIDGE MAY START TO BUILD OVER THE
PLAINS AGAIN...SO WILL NOT ADD POPS FOR THIS TIME FRAME.

COLD FRONT/OUTFLOW POSITIONS WILL BE A FORECAST CHALLENGE THROUGH
THE WEEKEND. RIGHT NOW FIRST GUESS IS THAT THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE ENTIRE PANHANDLE REGION BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO     65  89  62  82 /  50  30  30  30
BEAVER       62  83  58  76 /  60  40  40  40
BOISE CITY   57  81  56  77 /  70  40  40  40
BORGER       65  91  64  79 /  50  30  30  30
BOYS RANCH   64  86  59  79 /  60  30  30  30
CANYON       65  92  62  84 /  50  30  30  30
CLARENDON    68  93  65  85 /  40  30  30  30
DALHART      60  82  58  78 /  70  30  30  30
GUYMON       61  81  57  79 /  70  40  40  40
HEREFORD     63  95  62  85 /  50  30  30  30
LIPSCOMB     62  87  61  78 /  60  30  30  30
PAMPA        66  91  64  80 /  40  30  30  30
SHAMROCK     69  94  65  83 /  30  30  30  30
WELLINGTON   70  95  67  87 /  30  30  30  30

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

17/15

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 12:32 PM CDT, 8 hours 25 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1232 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-181100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
1232 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF THE
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN
THREAT FROM SEVERE WEATHER WILL COME FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...
CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES THROUGH TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THE SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE BOTH FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY...MAINLY DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

JORDAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
627 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0626 PM     FLASH FLOOD      STINNETT                35.82N 101.44W
06/17/2004                   HUTCHINSON         TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

RD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
654 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     TORNADO          4 ENE BORGER            35.68N 101.33W
06/17/2004                   HUTCHINSON         TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

            BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

&&

RD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
700 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0652 PM     HAIL             8 SW ADRIAN             35.19N 102.76W
06/17/2004  1.75 INCH        OLDHAM             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

RD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
736 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0633 PM     HAIL             3 S ADRIAN              35.23N 102.66W
06/17/2004  1.00 INCH        OLDHAM             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

RD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 8:31 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	57 min
Jun 17, 7:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	4 hr
Jun 17, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	23 min
Jun 17, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	29 min
Jun 17, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	43 min
Jun 17, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	63 min
Jun 17, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	42 min
Jun 17, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	50 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.