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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 4, 2006Gray County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2006, 11:17 PM CST for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
Mar 4, 2006, 11:17 PM CST (05:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 2006, 11:45 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gray County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 276 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2006-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 175 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 4, 10:08 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 10:08 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 10:24 PM CST, 53 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 4, 8:47 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
847 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

TXZ004-050330-
OCHILTREE TX-
847 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN OCHILTREE COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF WOLF CREEK PARK AT
847 PM CST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

JRC
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 9:12 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
912 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

TXZ013-018-050345-
ARMSTRONG TX-CARSON TX-
912 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN ARMSTRONG AND CARSON COUNTIES...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PANHANDLE TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF WASHBURN AT 912 PM CST...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN ARMSTRONG AND CARSON COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF
CLAUDE AND PANHANDLE...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

MJ
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 9:19 PM CST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
919 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

TXZ005-050400-
LIPSCOMB TX-
919 PM CST SAT MAR 4 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN LIPSCOMB COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES WEST OF LIPSCOMB AT 919 PM
CST...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN LIPSCOMB COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF LIPSCOMB...SHOULD
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND
REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Mar 4, 9:51 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 4, 10:34 PM CST, 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 4, 11:09 PM CST, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 9:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.