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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 3:39 PM CDT for Oldham 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2004, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1755 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 2, 3:18 AM CDT, 12 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:18 AM CDT, 12 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-031100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE PRIMARY CONCERN WILL BE FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HOWEVER...THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS MAY FORM... BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES...AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL FOR GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL OR LARGER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THURSDAY NIGHT. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES ON FRIDAY. THE PRIMARY CONCERN FOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. SCHNEIDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 73 min |
| Jun 2, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 57 min |
| Jun 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.