Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 5:11 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2007, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 5:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Texas County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 W Baker, OK | COVERING THE ROAD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KAMA 232211 TORAMA OKC139-232315- /O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0002.070323T2211Z-070323T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 511 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TEXAS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 506 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BAKER...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BAKER... TYRONE... ADAMS... HOOKER... 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 3673 10132 3668 10096 3699 10095 3699 10131 $$ KRAMAR/SCHNEIDER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KAMA 232220 SVSAMA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 518 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 OKC139-232315- /O.CON.KAMA.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070323T2315Z/ TEXAS OK- 518 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR TEXAS COUNTY... AT 514 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BAKER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TYRONE... BAKER... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. AT 505 PM CDT...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ADAMS. SPOTTERS REPORTED A RAPIDLY ROTATING WALL CLOUD EAST OF ADAMS WITH THIS STORM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1. LAT...LON 3673 10132 3668 10096 3699 10095 3699 10131 $$
000 WWUS54 KAMA 232252 SVSAMA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 552 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 OKC139-232302- /O.CAN.KAMA.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070323T2315Z/ TEXAS OK- 552 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TEXAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSBILE TORNADO HAVE EXITED THE WARNED AREA... THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1. LAT...LON 3673 10132 3668 10096 3699 10095 3699 10131 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | AMA | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 32 hr |
| Mar 23, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 59 min |
| Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.