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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 23, 2007Texas County, Oklahoma

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.

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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 23, 5:15 PM CDTHAIL 13 W Baker, OKCOVERING 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 23, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 3:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchAMABeaver, Cimarron, Texas32 hr
Mar 23, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas59 min
Mar 23, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABeaver35 min
Mar 23, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.