Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2013, 3:41 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 79 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 14, 2013, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Texas County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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 14, 12:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 12:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT WED AUG 14 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-151100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 300 PM CDT WED AUG 14 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS CAN BE STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WHERE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. IN ADDITION HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING AND AGAIN SUNDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE DURING THIS PERIOD...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN HAZARDS. IN ADDITION HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD BE READY FOR LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. CLK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 54 min |
| Aug 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 72 min |
| Aug 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe 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.