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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 24, 2010Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2010, 7:22 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: May 24, 2010, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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
May 24, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 4563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 May 24, 6:40 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:40 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 4:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
409 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-251100-
ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH-
DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE-
OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER-
409 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

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

.DAY ONE...

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR THE CENTRAL AND
EASTERN PANHANDLES...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE ANTICIPATED
TO DEVELOP ALONG AND EAST OF THE DRYLINE...WHICH WILL TRACK SLOWLY
EAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS...
ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE.

IN ADDITION...SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE
EXPECTED TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. AS
A RESULT...CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES THROUGH TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS
PANHANDLES TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS THAT
DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...MAINLY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. IN
ADDITION...THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY
RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED ACROSS MOST OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES THROUGH THIS EVENING IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER
OPERATIONS.

WYNNE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:35 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 6:38 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:54 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 6:57 PM CDT, 25 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
May 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	66 min
May 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	28 min
May 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	48 min
May 24, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Moore, Potter, Randall	61 min
May 24, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	66 min
May 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	58 min
May 24, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Potter, Roberts	59 min
May 24, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	67 min
May 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	55 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	60 min
May 24, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson	24 min
May 24, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Potter, Randall	61 min
May 24, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	23 min
May 24, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	67 min
May 24, 10:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray	35 min
May 24, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	63 min
May 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	32 min
May 24, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	57 min
May 24, 11:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	22 min
May 24, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	62 min
May 24, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler	54 min
May 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	37 min
May 24, 11:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Donley, Gray, Roberts	31 min
May 25, 12:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	42 min
May 25, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Randall, Roberts	66 min
May 25, 12:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Wheeler	30 min
May 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	4 hr
May 25, 12:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	32 min
May 25, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Potter, Randall	67 min
May 25, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	35 min
May 25, 12:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	116 min
May 25, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	55 min
May 25, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	4 hr
May 25, 2:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 25, 2:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	3 hr
May 25, 3:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 25, 10:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray	6 hr
May 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	43 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	39 min
May 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	63 min
May 25, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	59 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	62 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.