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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Amarillo, TX

September 26, 2012Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2012, 10:14 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 91 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: Sep 26, 2012, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 2012, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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
Sep 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Sep 26, 10:02 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 10:02 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 26, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
910 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

TXZ003-004-270245-
HANSFORD TX-OCHILTREE TX-
910 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN OCHILTREE AND
NORTHERN HANSFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM CDT...

AT 908 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTH OF SPEARMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN HANSFORD AND NORTHWESTERN OCHILTREE
  COUNTIES.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3650 10089 3631 10102 3637 10154 3649 10152
TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 276DEG 22KT 3645 10123

ANDRADE

Local storm report, Sep 26, 9:14 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
914 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

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

0912 PM     HAIL             GUYMON                  36.69N 101.48W
09/26/2012  E1.00 INCH       TEXAS              OK   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200689

KRAUSE

Local storm report, Sep 26, 9:15 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
915 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

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

0914 PM     HAIL             1 N GUYMON              36.70N 101.48W
09/26/2012  E1.00 INCH       TEXAS              OK   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200690

LG

Local storm report, Sep 26, 9:20 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
920 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

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

0918 PM     HAIL             HOOKER                  36.86N 101.21W
09/26/2012  E1.75 INCH       TEXAS              OK   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200691

KRAUSE

Local storm report, Sep 26, 9:23 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
923 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

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

0905 PM     HAIL             HOOKER                  36.86N 101.21W
09/26/2012  E1.00 INCH       TEXAS              OK   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200692

JACKSON

Local storm report, Sep 26, 9:26 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
926 PM CDT WED SEP 26 2012

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

0914 PM     HAIL             HOOKER                  36.86N 101.21W
09/26/2012  E1.25 INCH       TEXAS              OK   PUBLIC

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1200693

JACKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	35 min
Sep 26, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	5 hr
Sep 26, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	53 min
Sep 26, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	28 min
Sep 27, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	58 min
Sep 27, 5:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	60 min
Sep 27, 7:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley	3 hr
Sep 26, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	48 min
Sep 26, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	46 min
Sep 26, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	60 min
Sep 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2012 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2012 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012

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.