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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 23, 2007Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2007, 4:36 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: May 23, 2007, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -440 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 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 232136
TORAMA
TXC295-232200-
/O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0037.070523T2136Z-070523T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
436 PM CDT WED MAY 23 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FOLLETT...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FOLLETT...

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 3635 10044 3630 10023 3635 10002 3649 10001
      3649 10022

$$

KRAMAR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	55 min
May 23, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	53 min
May 23, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	65 min
May 23, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	29 min
May 23, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	40 min
May 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	45 min
May 23, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	62 min
May 23, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	43 min
May 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	53 min
May 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	59 min
May 23, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	51 min
May 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	57 min
May 23, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	66 min
May 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	64 min
May 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	44 min
May 23, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.