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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT for Hartley County, Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 18, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2013, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 18, 9:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:31 PM CDT, 8 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 331 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-191115- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 331 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE...ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...STRONG WINDS TO 70 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE MARGINALLY SEVERE...ARE POSSIBLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON IN THE FAR EASTERN PANHANDLES. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE QUARTERS...AND HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLES THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:31 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1131 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013 TXZ001-002-190515- DALLAM TX-SHERMAN TX- 1131 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SHERMAN AND EASTERN DALLAM COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT... AT 1127 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRATFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST 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... STRATFORD... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS... AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3633 10163 3608 10173 3629 10225 3648 10214 TIME...MOT...LOC 0431Z 293DEG 22KT 3636 10212 KB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 19, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 1:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 24 min |
| Jun 19, 4:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 4:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 5:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson, Gray | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Donley, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts, Wheeler | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 6:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 27 min |
| Jun 19, 6:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 25 min |
| Jun 19, 7:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 7:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hutchinson | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 8:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 8:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Donley | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Carson | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 8:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 9:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 66 min |
| Jun 18, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 59 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.