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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2013, 4:39 PM CDT for Wheeler 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
- May 8, 2013, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
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 May 7, 6:09 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 6:09 PM CDT, 22 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 28 min |
| May 8, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 45 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 24 min |
| May 8, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 24 min |
| May 8, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 58 min |
| May 8, 5:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Collingsworth | 3 hr |
| May 8, 5:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 33 min |
| May 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 50 min |
| May 8, 2:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 50 min |
| May 8, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 42 min |
| May 8, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.