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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 2:58 AM CDT for Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 92 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
- May 5, 2006, 2:58 AM CDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2006, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 365 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 4, 9:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 9:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 305 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-051100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 305 PM CDT THU MAY 4 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AREA-WIDE. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY... AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:18 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 64 min |
| May 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.