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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 5, 2008Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2008, 7:43 PM CDT for Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 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: May 5, 2008, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 7:29 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:43 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
743 PM CDT MON MAY 05 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     HAIL             6 N HOOKER              36.95N 101.21W
05/05/2008  E0.88 INCH       TEXAS              OK   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00188

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	63 min
May 5, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	36 min
May 5, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	61 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	45 min
May 5, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Sherman	55 min
May 5, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	43 min
May 5, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	53 min
May 5, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	63 min
May 5, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	59 min
May 5, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	45 min
May 5, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.