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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 4, 2009Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2009, 6:32 PM CDT for Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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 4, 2009, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2009, 6:53 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Hansford County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 4, 6:25 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:25 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
300 PM CDT THU JUN 4 2009

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-051100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
300 PM CDT THU JUN 4 2009

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

.DAY ONE...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 10
PM CDT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF
THE PANHANDLES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND ACROSS THE EASTERN
PANHANDLES MONDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ON THESE DAYS ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE AT THIS TIME.

ON SATURDAY...DRY AIR...WARMER WEATHER...AND INCREASING WINDS COULD
RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF
THE REGION. THEREFORE...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE
FAR WESTERN COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS IN THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA
AND THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD MONITOR THE
LATEST UPDATES FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS
EVENING.

NUNEZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:41 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
541 PM CDT THU JUN 04 2009

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

0540 PM     HAIL             5 E DUMAS               35.86N 101.88W
06/04/2009  E0.75 INCH       MOORE              TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA01425

SMB/SD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:04 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
604 PM CDT THU JUN 04 2009

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

0603 PM     HAIL             2 NW WILDORADO          35.24N 102.27W
06/04/2009  E0.75 INCH       OLDHAM             TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA01426

SMB/SD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
609 PM CDT THU JUN 04 2009

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

0609 PM     HAIL             2 NE WILDORADO          35.24N 102.22W
06/04/2009  E0.88 INCH       OLDHAM             TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA01427

SMB/SD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:13 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
613 PM CDT THU JUN 04 2009

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

0612 PM     HAIL             11 N GRUVER             36.42N 101.41W
06/04/2009  E0.75 INCH       HANSFORD           TX   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA01428

SMB/SD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:19 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:21 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:56 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	48 hr
Jun 4, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	53 min
Jun 4, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	58 min
Jun 4, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	42 min
Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Randall	57 min
Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	28 min
Jun 4, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	62 min
Jun 4, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	56 min
Jun 4, 6:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 4, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	30 min
Jun 4, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	30 min
Jun 4, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009 Every 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.