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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 19, 2008Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2008, 5:26 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 min. 4 reports 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: Jun 19, 2008, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2008, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
Jun 19, 5:30 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	7 N Black Mesa Park, OK
Jun 19, 5:42 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	Kenton, OK
Jun 19, 5:46 PM CDT	HAIL 2.75	2 N Kenton, OK
Jun 19, 5:48 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	Kenton, OK

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 19, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -497 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 800 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KAMA 192226
TORAMA
OKC025-192330-
/O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0027.080619T2226Z-080619T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
526 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF OKLAHOMA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
  KENTON...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOISE CITY...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KENTON BY 535 PM CDT
  BLACK MESA PARK BY 550 PM CDT
  9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHEELESS BY 610 PM CDT

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND OR COULD DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL
OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK
SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1.

LAT...LON 3699 10247 3672 10258 3671 10301 3700 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 322DEG 18KT 3697 10294

$$

KRAUSE

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KAMA 192241
SVSAMA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
541 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

OKC025-192330-
/O.CON.KAMA.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-080619T2330Z/
CIMARRON OK-
541 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY...

AT 541 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR KENTON...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOISE CITY...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BLACK MESA PARK...
  KENTON...
  WHEELESS...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1.

LAT...LON 3699 10247 3672 10258 3671 10301 3700 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 329DEG 21KT 3690 10294

$$

KRAUSE

000 
WWUS54 KAMA 192300
SVSAMA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
559 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

OKC025-192330-
/O.CON.KAMA.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-080619T2330Z/
CIMARRON OK-
559 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY...

AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BLACK
MESA PARK...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF BOISE CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST  
AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WHEELESS...
  BLACK MESA PARK...
  KENTON...

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1.

LAT...LON 3699 10247 3672 10258 3671 10301 3700 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 339DEG 20KT 3680 10291

$$

KRAUSE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 19, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
352 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

.DISCUSSION...
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTHWEST
ACROSS THE CENTRAL PANHANDLES. AS STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED SEVERE
WEATHER IN THE HIGHLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR...THINKING THE ATMOSPHERE
WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT SEVERE STORMS WITH ISOLATED SUPER CELLS
THROUGH THE EVENING AND POSSIBLY OVERNIGHT HOURS. CAN NOT RULE OUT
AN ISOLATED TORNADO...ESPECIALLY AS THE CELLS INTERACT WITH THE
BOUNDARIES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. ADDITIONAL STORMS DEVELOPING
ALONG THE ROCKIES IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO SHOULD TRAVEL WITHIN THE
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND IMPACT THE PANHANDLES LATER THIS AFTERNOON
AND OVERNIGHT. SO...ASIDE FROM SEVERE WEATHER...AM ALSO SOME WHAT
CONCERNED FOR HEAVY RAINS AND LOCOLIZED FLOODING. HELD OFF ON A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH FOR NOW.

SIMILAR SYNOPTIC PATTERN REMAINS IN PLACE THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK.
FEEL GRIDS MAY BE A BIT OVER POPULATED...BUT AT THE SAME TIME...THERE
SEEMS TO BE FEW OBVIOUS DRY PERIODS WITHIN THE NEXT 5 DAYS. DID FEEL
THE DAYTIME HOURS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY MAY SEE A BREAK IN
ACTIVITY...BUT THAT MAY ALSO CHANGE. SEE NO REASON WHY MOUNTAIN
CONVECTION WILL CEASE DURING THE AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY...AND
WITH THE RIDGE SITTING IN A SIMILAR POSITION...EXPECT ANY ROCKY
MOUNTAIN STORMS SHOULD PUSH INTO THE WESTERN ZONES. AT THE SAME
TIME...MODELS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SHORT WAVES THAT TRIGGER STORMS IN
EASTERN COLORADO OR WESTERN KANSAS WHICH SHOULD ALSO BECOME DIRECTED
BY THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. SO CAN NOT RULE OUT THE EASTERN
PANHANDLES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. EACH NEW MODEL RUN
SEEMS TO SHY AWAY FROM MAKING MAJOR CHANGES TO THE RIDGE UNTIL THE
DAY 6 OR 7 TIME FRAME...AT WHICH TIME THE GFS AND EURO ATTEMPT TO
PUSH THE RIDGE SLIGHTLY FURTHER EAST AND INCREASE THE HEIGHTS. THIS
WOULD FAVOR LOWER POP CHANCES FOR THE PANHANDLES...SO WILL AGAIN KEEP
THE DAY 6 AND 7 TIME FRAME DRY. FURTHERMORE...EXPECT ANY DAY THAT
PRODUCES THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE.

NEED TO BEGIN SEVERE WEATHER OPS SO APOLOGIZE FOR THE ABREVIATED
AFD...STUCK WITH GUIDANCE TEMPS FOR THE MOST PART.

JJB

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
NO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS IN THE EXTENDED...OTHER THAN THUNDERSTORMS
AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMARILLO TX                61  88  63  88  64 /  60  20  30  20  30
BEAVER OK                  62  85  61  94  62 /  60  20  30  10  30
BOISE CITY OK              61  85  59  87  63 /  50  20  30  20  30
BORGER TX                  66  87  66  89  68 /  60  20  30  20  30
BOYS RANCH TX              63  90  64  89  65 /  60  20  30  20  30
CANYON TX                  61  89  62  87  62 /  60  20  30  20  30
CLARENDON TX               64  88  65  87  66 /  60  20  30  10  30
DALHART TX                 61  87  61  87  61 /  50  20  30  20  30
GUYMON OK                  62  87  63  90  64 /  60  20  30  20  30
HEREFORD TX                62  89  62  89  62 /  50  20  30  20  30
LIPSCOMB TX                63  86  63  89  62 /  60  20  30  10  30
PAMPA TX                   64  85  64  87  68 /  60  20  30  10  30
SHAMROCK TX                66  88  66  89  66 /  60  20  30   5  30
WELLINGTON TX              67  89  67  90  68 /  60  20  30   5  30

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

14/08

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
216 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-201100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
216 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

.DAY ONE...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 578 UNTIL 9 PM ACROSS CIMARRON AND TEXAS COUNTIES IN THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...AND ALL BUT THE EASTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS
PANHANDLES.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

ALSO...BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL REQUIRE CAUTION ON AREA LAKES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY NIGHT...SATURDAY
NIGHT...AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE
THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD MONITOR
WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH SUNDAY...AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE
ACTIVATION.

NUNEZ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:28 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
428 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

TXZ019-192200-
DONLEY TX-
428 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL DONLEY COUNTY...

AT 428 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENBELT LAKE MOVING EAST
AT 10 MPH.

STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY.

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL DONLEY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CLARENDON...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS
AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

JC

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:30 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
430 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

0425 PM     HAIL             8 E AMARILLO            35.20N 101.68W
06/19/2008  E0.75 INCH       POTTER             TX   NWS OFFICE

            HAIL WAS ONGOING FOR 10 MINUTES.

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00649

BROST

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:34 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
434 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

0433 PM     HAIL             8 E AMARILLO            35.20N 101.68W
06/19/2008  M0.88 INCH       POTTER             TX   NWS OFFICE

            HAIL ONGOING

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00650

BROST

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:39 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
439 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

0436 PM     TSTM WND GST     6 SE AMARILLO           35.14N 101.74W
06/19/2008  E70 MPH          RANDALL            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00651

NUTTALL

Local storm report, Jun 19, 5:15 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
515 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

0435 PM     HAIL             WASHBURN                35.18N 101.57W
06/19/2008  E4.50 INCH       ARMSTRONG          TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00652

NUTTALL

Local storm report, Jun 19, 5:16 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
516 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008

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

0445 PM     HAIL             4 W CLARENDON           34.94N 100.96W
06/19/2008  E1.75 INCH       DONLEY             TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER 00653

NUTTALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	91 min
Jun 18, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	84 min
Jun 18, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	63 min
Jun 18, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	96 min
Jun 19, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	56 min
Jun 19, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	58 min
Jun 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	54 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.