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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2009, 3:03 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 4, 2009, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2009, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 785 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 Jul 4, 2:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 236 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009 .DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE... ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA AS A SHORT WAVE TROUGH OVER CENTRAL NEW MEXICO MOVES THIS WAY. PLENTY OF SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO BE BROUGHT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLES BETWEEN THIS SHORT WAVE TROUGH AND HIGH PRESSURE OFF TO OUR SOUTHEAST. MORE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO NOW WILL MOVE THIS WAY LATER TONIGHT IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BEHIND THE SHORT WAVE TROUGH. HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS OVERNIGHT...HOWEVER CAN NOT RULE OUT SOME STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE WHERE THE INSTABILITY WILL BE THE BEST. UPSLOPE FLOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING. THE MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW MAY BRING SOME LOW CLOUDS TO THE AREA FOR MUCH OF THE DAY SUNDAY. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE LOW TO MID LEVEL SHEAR WILL HELP MOUNTAIN CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN ON SUNDAY. THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL AGAIN BRING THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS DIRECTION SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THE AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE CONDITIONAL ON HOW UNSTABLE THE ATMOSPHERE CAN GET OVER THE AREA. FOR NOW...HAVE NOT GONE TOO WILD ON THE POPS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES TO BRING THUNDERSTORMS THIS WAY. MODELS ARE NOT AS BULLISH ON BRINGING THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH OUT ONTO THE PLAINS AS BEFORE. IF THE MODELS CONTINUE THE TREND OF KEEPING THE HIGH FURTHER WEST OVER THE MOUNTAINS...THEN WE MAY NEED TO CONSIDER EXTENDING POPS FURTHER OUT INTO THE FORECAST. WENT FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE GFS NUMBERS FOR TEMPERATURES IN THIS FORECAST. HOWEVER...HIGH TEMPERATURES MAY BE A LITTLE WARM BY MID TO LATE NEXT WEEK OF THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH DOES NOT BUILD AS STRONGLY INTO THE PLAINS. && .FIRE WEATHER... FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS WILL BE MINIMIZED BY THE EXPECTED RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMARILLO TX 67 80 66 85 64 / 60 30 30 20 20 BEAVER OK 66 87 64 91 66 / 30 20 30 10 20 BOISE CITY OK 63 84 64 89 63 / 70 40 50 20 20 BORGER TX 70 88 68 88 67 / 40 30 40 10 20 BOYS RANCH TX 68 84 67 91 67 / 50 30 40 20 20 CANYON TX 66 78 66 87 65 / 60 30 30 20 20 CLARENDON TX 69 85 67 84 64 / 60 30 30 10 20 DALHART TX 65 83 64 89 63 / 60 30 40 20 20 GUYMON OK 66 85 66 90 66 / 30 20 40 20 20 HEREFORD TX 65 78 65 87 65 / 60 30 30 20 20 LIPSCOMB TX 67 90 64 87 65 / 30 20 30 10 20 PAMPA TX 68 89 67 84 64 / 40 20 30 10 20 SHAMROCK TX 70 93 66 88 64 / 50 20 30 5 20 WELLINGTON TX 72 92 68 88 65 / 60 20 20 5 20 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 16/15
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:42 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 242 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009 TXZ015-042015- WHEELER TX- 242 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR WHEELER COUNTY. AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LELA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR OTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. SJOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:56 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 256 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009 TXZ019-020-042030- COLLINGSWORTH TX-DONLEY TX- 256 PM CDT SAT JUL 4 2009 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR DONLEY AND COLLINGSWORTH COUNTIES. AT 256 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUAIL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR OTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. SJOHNSON
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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.