Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2007, 5:57 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 78 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 31, 2007, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2007, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 78 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 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 31, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 350 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-011100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 350 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... TORNADO WATCH 313 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY BE NORTH OF THE CANADIAN RIVER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...AND THEN AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE FRIDAY AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THE THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS ALL SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THROUGH TONIGHT. HENNIG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 5:49 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 549 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 OKZ001-312315- CIMARRON OK- 549 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT NORTHERN CIMARRON COUNTY... AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMPO COLORADO. OUTER PORTIONS OF THIS STORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CIMARRON COUNTY. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAY 287 10 MILES NORTH OF BOISE CITY. A SECOND STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NEAR KENTON. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN CIMARRON COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. KRAMAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 59 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.