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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 16, 2004Dallam County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 7:41 PM CDT for Dallam County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 16, 2004, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallam 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 16, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

606 
WFUS54 KAMA 170041
TORAMA
TXC111-170145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
739 PM CDT WED JUN 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAM COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARE...OR    
  ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF DALHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  
  ANOTHER CIRCULATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARE     
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.



* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  WARE AND CONLEN

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

LAT...LON 3625 10290 3610 10277 3615 10243 3622 10218
      3647 10218 3649 10274

$$

KRAMAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	56 min
Jun 16, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	84 min
Jun 16, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	85 min
Jun 16, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	26 min
Jun 16, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	55 min
Jun 16, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	58 min
Jun 16, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	96 min
Jun 16, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	53 min
Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	60 min
Jun 16, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	64 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	47 min
Jun 17, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	48 min
Jun 17, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	63 min
Jun 17, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	45 min
Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	55 min
Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	46 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	53 min
Jun 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	38 min
Jun 17, 6:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	83 min
Jun 17, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	59 min
Jun 17, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	58 min
Jun 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	54 min
Jun 17, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	50 min
Jun 17, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	62 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.