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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 16, 2005Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 90 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2005, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 10:14 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 10:14 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 10:12 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
708 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0702 PM     HAIL             3 E GATE                36.85N 100.00W
06/16/2005  1.50 INCH        BEAVER             OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

            RELAYED FROM NWS OUN

&&

JC

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
735 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0731 PM     HAIL             2 NW GOODNIGHT          35.05N 101.21W
06/16/2005  1.75 INCH        ARMSTRONG          TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

JC

Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
842 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     TORNADO          5 N GATE                36.92N 100.05W
06/16/2005                   BEAVER             OK   NWS OFFICE

            RELAYED BY DDC NWS

&&

JC

Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
844 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0840 PM     HAIL             BEAVER                  36.81N 100.52W
06/16/2005  1.00 INCH        BEAVER             OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

RTW

Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:02 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:07 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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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, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	32 min
Jun 16, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	53 min
Jun 16, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	78 min
Jun 16, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	86 min
Jun 16, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 min
Jun 16, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	91 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.