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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Amarillo, TX

September 6, 2007Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2007, 5:12 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Sep 6, 2007, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 6, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
243 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007

.DISCUSSION...
BIGGEST FORECAST CHALLENGES WILL BE PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT THROUGH
THE WEEKEND ALONG WITH MAX TEMPS. REMNANTS OF HENRIETTE LIFTING VERY
SLOWLY NORTHEAST NEAR THE BOOTHEEL OF NM. ALREADY SEEING CONVECTION
SPREADING INTO THE SOUTHWEST TX PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON OUT OF NM
AND ALSO CONVECTION MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST CO FROM THE WESTERN OK
PANHANDLE. BUMPED UP POPS SLIGHTLY TONIGHT TO INCLUDE EVEN THE
NORTHWEST SECTIONS. COLD FRONT FORECASTED TO PUSH ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING. THE INTERACTION OF THE TROPICAL
MOISTURE AND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL HELP TO INITIATE ADDITIONAL
CONVECTION DURING THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME HOURS FRIDAY. CONCERN
THAT RAINFALL FRIDAY NIGHT MAY BE VERY HEAVY WITH LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING POSSIBLE. DECIDED TO HOLD OFF ON ISSUING ANY WATCHES AT THIS
TIME...HOWEVER LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO WATCH CLOSELY FOR THE
LIKELIHOOD OF WIDESPREAD FLOODING. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS WOULD BE THE
EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES AND THE SOUTHERN TX PANHANDLE.
BUMPED UP POPS TO CHANCE AND LIKELY CATEGORY FRIDAY NIGHT AS THIS
APPEARS TO BE THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP.

THEUPPER SYSTEM FORECASTED TO BEGIN MOVING OFF TO THE EAST SATURDAY
ALLWOING AT LEAST THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES TO SEE AN
END TO THE CONVECTION. TEMPS AND PRECIP CHANCES WILL BE TRICKY
SATURDAY AND DECIDED TO KEEP THE CLOUDS AND PRECIP IN THE SOUTHEAST
HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. LEFT THE POPS ALONE FROM THE PREVIOUS
FORECAST AND GRIDS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. WENT WITH WARMER
TEMPS WEST WHERE SKIES MAY CLEAR OR THE CLOUDS TO BREAK OUT AND LEFT
THE EAST COOLER. BRIEF SHORTWAVE RIDGING SUNDAY BEFORE ANOTHER
SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPROACHES BY LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. ANOTHER
STRONGER COLD FRONT FORECASTED TO PUSH ACROSS THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY
NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY...WENT WITH COOLER TEMPS EARLY NEXT WEEK ALONG
WITH SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE POPS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. DRY FROM
TUESDAY TO THE END OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH WARMING TEMPS BY
WEDNESDAY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH NWSFO/S DDC...PUB...OUN AND LUB FOR THE EXCELLENT
COORDINATION.

SCHNEIDER

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO TX                66  85  66  82  65 /  20  30  50  30  20
BEAVER OK                  68  85  63  80  65 /  20  20  40  30  30
BOISE CITY OK              62  82  61  86  61 /  20  10  20  20  20
BORGER TX                  72  86  67  81  70 /  20  30  50  30  30
BOYS RANCH TX              65  86  66  88  66 /  20  20  40  30  20
CANYON TX                  67  86  64  85  63 /  30  30  40  30  20
CLARENDON TX               72  87  69  81  67 /  30  30  50  30  30
DALHART TX                 64  81  61  86  61 /  20  20  30  20  20
GUYMON OK                  65  88  66  85  65 /  20  10  30  20  20
HEREFORD TX                66  85  63  86  62 /  30  30  40  30  20
LIPSCOMB TX                70  84  66  76  65 /  20  20  60  30  30
PAMPA TX                   72  83  67  77  68 /  20  30  50  30  30
SHAMROCK TX                74  87  69  81  67 /  40  40  60  30  30
WELLINGTON TX              73  89  71  82  69 /  40  40  60  30  30

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

11/24
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 6, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:20 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
420 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007

TXZ014-062215-
GRAY TX-
420 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN GRAY COUNTY...

AT 420 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 4 MILES NORTH AND 5 MILES WEST OF LAKE
MCCLELLAN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

NUNEZ
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:43 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
443 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007

TXZ019-062245-
DONLEY TX-
443 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN DONLEY COUNTY...

AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CLARENDON...LELIA LAKE AND HEDLEY
AREAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

NUNEZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley29 min
Sep 6, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray13 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.