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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2013, 7:16 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cimarron County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:04 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Roberts | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 68 min |
| Aug 3, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 8:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 12:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 24 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.