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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 21, 2004Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2004, 6:22 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 3 reports 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: Apr 21, 2004, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lipscomb County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Apr 21, 6:31 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Follett, TX
Apr 21, 6:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	Follett, TX
Apr 21, 6:42 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Follett, 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
Apr 21, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

633 
WUUS54 KAMA 212322
SVRAMA
TXC295-220015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
622 PM CDT WED APR 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FOLLETT...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LIPSCOMB...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  LIPSCOMB...HIGGINS...FOLLETT AND DARROUZETT

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

LAT...LON 3647 10037 3607 10036 3608 10003 3648 10003

$$

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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.