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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 2013Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 65 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 28, 2013, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
May 28, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 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 28, 2:36 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:36 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 8:32 AM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:50 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
250 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013

OKZ003-282015-
BEAVER OK-
250 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY UNTIL 315
PM CDT...

AT 247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KNOWLES...OR 14 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BEAVER...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...
  KNOWLES...            GATE...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3664 10002 3661 10029 3674 10044 3701 10041
      3700 10002
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 226DEG 13KT 3674 10028

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	28 min
May 28, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Potter	25 min
May 28, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	34 min
May 28, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Potter	33 min
May 28, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Potter, Randall	29 min
May 28, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	28 min
May 28, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	56 min
May 28, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Potter, Randall	57 min
May 28, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Sherman	65 min
May 28, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	66 min
May 28, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	64 min
May 28, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman	53 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley and 7 more	3 hr
May 28, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	29 min
May 28, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	53 min
May 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	48 min
May 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	25 min
May 28, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	27 min
May 28, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	34 min
May 28, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	57 min
May 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	64 min
May 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	31 min
May 28, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	37 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.