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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 4, 2004Oldham County, Potter County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2004, 6:37 PM CDT for Oldham County, Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 4, 2004, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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.

937 
WFUS54 KAMA 042337
TORAMA
TXC359-375-050030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
636 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL OLDHAM COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
  WESTERN POTTER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 636 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 SOUTHWEST OF VALLEY DE
  ORO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF VEGA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  VALLEY DE ORO

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3544 10241 3522 10232 3526 10186 3556 10203

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	56 min
Jun 4, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	44 min
Jun 4, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	35 min
Jun 4, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	57 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	53 min
Jun 4, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	56 min
Jun 4, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	50 min
Jun 4, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.