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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2013, 6:24 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 3, 2013, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2013, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hartley County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 6:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 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.