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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2009, 3:41 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 2, 2009, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2009, 4:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hemphill County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 2, 12:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 12:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-031100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... AN UPPER LOW MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTH ACROSS THE PANHANDLES WILL COMBINE WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR TODAY AND TONIGHT. AS A RESULT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT TIME RESULTING IN LOCAL FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME... THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION TODAY. SCHNEIDER/KIMBLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:41 PM CDT, 1 hour before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 241 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 TXZ004-022015- OCHILTREE TX- 241 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS OCHILTREE COUNTY... AT 239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOLF CREEK PARK...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF PERRYTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN OCHILTREE COUNTY. KIMBLE
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 TXZ004-005-009-010-022045- LIPSCOMB TX-OCHILTREE TX-ROBERTS TX-HEMPHILL TX- 315 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACROSS HEMPHILL...ROBERTS...OCHILTREE AND LIPSCOMB COUNTIES... AT 311 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF WOLF CREEK PARK...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANADIAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. UP TO ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES ALONG THE OCHILTREE AND ROBERTS COUNTY LINE. PEOPLE NEAR WOLF CREEK PARK OR OTHER AREAS IN SOUTHWEST LIPSCOMB COUNTY AND NORTHWEST HEMPHILL COUNTY MAY BE IMPACTED BY SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. KIMBLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.