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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 1, 2007Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2007, 1:01 PM CDT for Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 1, 2007, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2007, 1:35 PM CDT
In force: 34 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 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 1384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 383 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 1, 12:57 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 12:57 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 minute before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
100 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-021100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
100 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH
SEVERE LEVELS ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE TEXAS
PANHANDLE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
THE PRIMARY THREAT MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.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 ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING HOURS...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...THE THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
CONTINUE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE READY FOR POSSIBLE
ACTIVATION THROUGH THIS EVENING.

SCHNEIDER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 12:46 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:51 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
May 31, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	60 min
May 31, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	58 min
May 31, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	43 min
May 31, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	28 min
May 31, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	54 min
May 31, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	53 min
May 31, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Moore	27 min
May 31, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Sherman	60 min
May 31, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	79 min
May 31, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	49 min
Jun 1, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	53 min
Jun 1, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	62 min
Jun 1, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Potter	40 min
Jun 1, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	65 min
Jun 1, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	53 min
Jun 1, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	63 min
May 31, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	53 min
May 31, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	59 min
May 31, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	42 min
May 31, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	32 min
May 31, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	31 min
May 31, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	62 min
May 31, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	58 min
May 31, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	42 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.