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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 19, 20136 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2013, 6:16 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 59 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 19, 2013, 6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2013, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Carson County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 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

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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 19, 5:16 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 5:16 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
425 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-192100-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
425 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS
AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS CAN
BE SEVERE WHERE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE
OF HEN EGGS...STRONG WINDS TO 60 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THURSDAY EVENING AND ACROSS THE WESTERN
AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A
FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

CLK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
433 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013

OKZ003-TXZ005-191015-
BEAVER OK-LIPSCOMB TX-
433 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LIPSCOMB AND SOUTHERN BEAVER
COUNTIES UNTIL 515 AM CDT...

AT 431 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DARROUZETT...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF
LIPSCOMB...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...
  LIPSCOMB...           FOLLETT...            DARROUZETT...

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

LAT...LON 3655 10003 3616 10002 3616 10053 3656 10053
TIME...MOT...LOC 0932Z 316DEG 17KT 3646 10033

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:58 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:13 AM CDT, 3 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 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 18, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	60 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, 6:33 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

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.