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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 9, 2008Collingsworth County, Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 12:43 AM CDT for Collingsworth County, Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. 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: Jun 9, 2008, 12:43 AM CDT (05:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2008, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 9, 12:38 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 12:38 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1121 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-091100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
1121 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE...AS WELL AS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE
UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THE REST OF TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA
AND TEXAS PANHANDLES AS A COLD FRONT AND MINOR UPPER LEVEL LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. ANY STORMS THAT FORM MAY
BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS.
IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE
STRONGEST STORMS...WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN
SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES MONDAY AND AGAIN
WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP ARE
EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

ANDRADE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:54 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1154 PM CDT SUN JUN 08 2008

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

1145 PM     HAIL             5 NNW MOBEETIE          35.60N 100.48W
06/08/2008  E1.00 INCH       WHEELER            TX   PUBLIC

            PENNY TO QUARTER HAIL WITH SOME HALF DOLLAR. 50 TO 60
            MPH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ALSO.

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00563

JC

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:02 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 12:16 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 12:20 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 12:24 AM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:37 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	45 min
Jun 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts, Wheeler	66 min
Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	61 min
Jun 8, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	55 min
Jun 8, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	67 min
Jun 8, 9:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	84 min
Jun 8, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts, Wheeler	61 min
Jun 8, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill	59 min
Jun 8, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	54 min
Jun 8, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	53 min
Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Roberts	17 min
Jun 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	56 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 8, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	53 min
Jun 8, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	66 min
Jun 8, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 4 more	61 min
Jun 8, 11:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Roberts and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 8, 11:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	103 min
Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley	55 min
Jun 8, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 2 more	63 min
Jun 9, 12:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:10 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	11 hr
Jun 9, 4:10 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	24 hr

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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.