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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 17, 2004Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2004, 5:52 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 8 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: Jun 17, 2004, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Nw Borger, TX	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN
Jun 17, 6:00 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Stinnett, TX
Jun 17, 6:04 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 67	3 N Borger, TX
Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Stinnett, TX	ROOFS DAMAGED POWER LINES DOWN
Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	Stinnett, TX	ALSO POWER LINES DOWN
Jun 17, 6:13 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	Stinnett, TX
Jun 17, 6:14 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 Nw Borger, TX
Jun 17, 6:23 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Stinnett, 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
Jun 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -529 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 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.

619 
WFUS54 KAMA 172252
TORAMA
TXC233-172330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
550 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 550 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 SOUTH OF STINNETT...OR    
  ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BORGER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. STORM
  SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BORGER...STINNETT...SANFORD AND PRINGLE

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

LAT...LON 3592 10161 3566 10161 3564 10110 3600 10110

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam	64 min
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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.