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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2008, 6:43 PM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 92 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 17, 2008, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2008, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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 17, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 17, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 523 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008 .UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED THE ZONE FORECAST TO INCLUDE MENTION OF THE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 561. ALSO INCREASED PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT GIVEN INCREASED CONFIDENCE IN THE DEVELOPING MCS BRINGING WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 333 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2008/ DISCUSSION... WEATHER PATTERN THE NEXT WEEK WILL BE CHARACTERIZED BY AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND NORTHERN OLD MEXICO...WITH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION. THIS LEAVES THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IN PERSISTENT NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. SEVERAL MINOR DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW...BUT THE GENERAL PATTERN REMAINS THE SAME. TONIGHT...CONVECTION ORIGINATING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO AIDED BY A MINOR DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST INTO THE PANHANDLES REGION. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BECOME WIDESPREAD AND DEVELOP INTO AN MCS AND MOVE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES WOULD SUPPORT A LARGE HAIL THREAT...EVOLVING MORE INTO A DAMAGING WIND THREAT OVERNIGHT AS THE MCS PUSHES THROUGH. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE REGION FROM THE NORTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PUSHING A COLD FRONT/SURFACE TROUGH THROUGH THE PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT. AT THIS POINT LOOKS LIKE MOST OF THE ENERGY AND CONVECTION WILL BE FORMING TO THE NORTH AND POTENTIALLY IMPACTING THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THEREFORE HAVE DECIDED TO REDUCE PRECIP CHANCES SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PANHANDLES FOR THIS TIME PERIOD...WHILE KEEPING HIGHER PRECIP CHANCES TO THE NORTH AND EAST. UPSLOPE EASTERLY FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT ON THURSDAY MAY LEAD TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN NEW MEXICO AND THE FAR WESTERN PANHANDLE...POSSIBLY IN THE VICINITY OF A REMNANT BOUNDARY. THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE PANHANDLES OVERNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT. GFS SUGGESTS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MAY IMPACT THE PANHANDLES FROM THE NORTH FRIDAY NIGHT. GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH REMAINDER OF FORECAST AS UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST. THIS SUGGESTS DRY AND HOT CONDITIONS FOR THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. GENERALLY REMAINED CLOSE TO MEXMOS TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE ENTIRE FORECAST. KIMBLE && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 14/13
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 17, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 84 min |
| Jun 17, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 97 min |
| Jun 17, 6:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.