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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2008, 6:38 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 28, 2008, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2008, 7:24 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Deaf Smith County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 6:24 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:24 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 346 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-291100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 346 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...AND THEN AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT...WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND THURSDAY NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. COCKRELL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:06 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 606 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 TXZ011-290000- OLDHAM TX- 606 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OLDHAM COUNTY... AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 7 MILES NORTH OF WILDORADO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN OLDHAM COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF ADRIAN AND VEGA...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:09 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 609 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 TXZ012-290015- POTTER TX- 609 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN POTTER COUNTY... AT 609 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUSHLAND MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. JJB
Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:16 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 27, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 55 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.