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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2010, 6:20 PM CDT for Carson County, Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 10, 2010, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2010, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 10, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1974 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 10, 4:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 343 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-111100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 343 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR THE SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TODAY DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF WINDS IN THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 20 PERCENT. ALSO...CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES TODAY DUE TO THE STRONG SOUTH WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALVES OF THE PANHANDLES FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AREA WIDE ON SATURDAY...BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE LIKELY SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS THAT DEVELOP DURING THESE TIME FRAMES MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES ON FRIDAY DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR THE SOUTHWEST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. BROST
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:40 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
540 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0540 PM TSTM WND GST BORGER 35.66N 101.40W
06/10/2010 E60 MPH HUTCHINSON TX TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME SIZED HAIL ACCOMPANIED STRONG WINDS
&&
EVENT NUMBER AMA1000614
JOHNSONLocal storm report, Jun 10, 6:14 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
614 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0612 PM HAIL PANHANDLE 35.35N 101.38W
06/10/2010 E1.00 INCH CARSON TX TRAINED SPOTTER
NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL FALLING
&&
EVENT NUMBER AMA1000615
JOHNSONSpecial weather statement, Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 620 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 TXZ003-004-110000- HANSFORD TX-OCHILTREE TX- 620 PM CDT THU JUN 10 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR OCHILTREE AND HANSFORD COUNTIES. AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF SPEARMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter, Randall | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.