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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 26, 2013Armstrong County, Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2013, 6:59 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 26, 2013, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 6:26 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:26 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 6:45 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 6:50 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
650 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013

TXZ013>015-018-019-270045-
ARMSTRONG TX-CARSON TX-DONLEY TX-GRAY TX-WHEELER TX-
650 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN ARMSTRONG...
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CARSON...WESTERN WHEELER...SOUTHERN GRAY AND
NORTHWESTERN DONLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT...

AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE MCCLELLAN...OR 17 MILES
NORTH OF CLARENDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MCLEAN...             LAKE MCCLELLAN...     ALANREED...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 146.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS... AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3548 10057 3523 10043 3506 10102 3522 10112
TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 245DEG 17KT 3518 10097

SCHNEIDER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	66 min
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	65 min
May 25, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	66 min
May 25, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	56 min
May 25, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	59 min
May 25, 9:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 25, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	58 min
May 25, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	60 min
May 25, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	59 min
May 26, 7:04 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	14 hr
May 26, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	60 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.