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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 17, 2004Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 17, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 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), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

876 
WFUS54 KAMA 172340
TORAMA
TXC233-180030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL HUTCHINSON COUNTY...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF BORGER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3603 10141 3569 10142 3567 10111 3604 10110

$$

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, 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, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	62 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.