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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 21, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Potter County, TX
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 21, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 2119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
511 WFUS54 KAMA 220030 TORAMA TXC375-220130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 730 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... POTTER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 730 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF AMARILLO...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... BUSHLAND...AND INTERSTATE 40 WEST OF AMARILLO. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3562 10163 3562 10215 3520 10214 3520 10164 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 87 min |
| Jun 21, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 84 min |
| Jun 21, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 97 min |
| Jun 21, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 54 min |
| Jun 21, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 73 min |
| Jun 21, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 91 min |
| Jun 21, 10:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hartley | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 46 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.