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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 22, 2008Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2008, 5:46 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2008, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 5:46 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	9 E Wheeler, TX

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 22, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 222248
TORAMA
TXC483-222315-
/O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0002.080522T2246Z-080522T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
546 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL WHEELER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WALL CLOUD
  JUST WEST OF TWITTY IN WHEELER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF
  SHAMROCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KELTON AT AT 600 PM CDT

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 STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...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 3532 10021 3537 10022 3558 10000 3557 9998
      3552 9999 3551 9997 3542 9997 3536 9998
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 218DEG 29KT 3540 10015

$$

JORDAN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KAMA 222313
SVSAMA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
612 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

TXC483-222322-
/O.EXP.KAMA.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080522T2315Z/
WHEELER TX-
612 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL WHEELER COUNTY EXPIRES AT 615
PM CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA...AND NO LONGER POSES A 
TORNADIC THREAT TO NORHTEASTERN WHEELER COUNTY. THUS THE TORNADO 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA AS THUNDERSTORMS
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES ARE STILL POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3532 10021 3537 10022 3558 10000 3557 9998
      3552 9999 3551 9997 3542 9997 3536 9998
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 218DEG 29KT 3556 9999

$$

JORDAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 4:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford and 11 more	16 hr
May 22, 5:32 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	15 hr
May 22, 3:29 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	14 hr
May 22, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	61 min
May 22, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler	54 min
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	62 min
May 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	32 min
May 22, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.