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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 28, 2007Donley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 8:16 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2007, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Donley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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
Mar 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 1596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 290116
TORAMA
TXC129-290145-
/O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0011.070329T0116Z-070329T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
816 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN DONLEY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 811 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER
  NORTHEASTERN DONLEY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  CLARENDON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1.

LAT...LON 3507 10055 3509 10066 3510 10068 3510 10073
      3511 10074 3518 10073 3518 10054 3509 10054

$$

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	39 min
Mar 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	62 min
Mar 28, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	39 min
Mar 28, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Donley	51 min
Mar 28, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore, Sherman	61 min
Mar 28, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	62 min
Mar 28, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	AMA	Gray	40 min
Mar 28, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	62 min
Mar 28, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Wheeler	38 min
Mar 28, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	65 min
Mar 28, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Gray	48 min
Mar 28, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	58 min
Mar 28, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	61 min
Mar 28, 8:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Wheeler	46 min
Mar 28, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	56 min
Mar 28, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Gray	29 min
Mar 28, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	43 min
Mar 28, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	63 min
Mar 28, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	63 min
Mar 28, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	62 min
Mar 28, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	61 min
Mar 28, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	58 min
Mar 28, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	65 min
Mar 28, 9:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	44 min
Mar 28, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	67 min
Mar 28, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	41 min
Mar 28, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	62 min
Mar 28, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	53 min
Mar 28, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	64 min
Mar 28, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	56 min
Mar 28, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	57 min
Mar 28, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	67 min
Mar 28, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree, Roberts	63 min
Mar 28, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	60 min
Mar 29, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	55 min
Mar 29, 12:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	2 hr
Mar 29, 1:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	2 hr
Mar 29, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	32 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.