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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2013, 7:12 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 63 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 6, 2013, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2013, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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 00:15 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 6, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Aug 6, 6:55 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:55 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 344 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-071100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 344 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE DURING THIS TIME PERIOD...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GOEHRING
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:22 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 622 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 TXZ009-010-014-062345- GRAY TX-HEMPHILL TX-ROBERTS TX- 622 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ROBERTS... SOUTHWESTERN HEMPHILL AND NORTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT... AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF CODMAN...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF PAMPA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MIAMI... LORA... CODMAN... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3592 10054 3569 10037 3549 10088 3564 10099 TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 239DEG 14KT 3561 10084 SCHNEIDER
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:39 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
639 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013
OKZ003-070045-
BEAVER OK-
639 PM CDT TUE AUG 6 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY UNTIL 745
PM CDT...
AT 636 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SLAPOUT...OR 27 MILES
NORTHEAST OF LIPSCOMB...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SLAPOUT... KNOWLES... GATE...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
LAT...LON 3700 9999 3652 10000 3651 10015 3700 10021
3701 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2339Z 179DEG 24KT 3660 10004
SCHNEIDERSpecial weather statement, Aug 6, 6:45 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 67 min |
| Aug 6, 10:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 58 min |
| Aug 6, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.