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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 2013Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2013, 4:56 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2013, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

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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, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 4:12 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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

TXZ011-012-016-017-282145-
DEAF SMITH TX-OLDHAM TX-POTTER TX-RANDALL TX-
412 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN RANDALL...POTTER...
EASTERN OLDHAM AND DEAF SMITH COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT...

AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTH OF
VALLEY DE ORO TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUMMERFIELD...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  VEGA...               HEREFORD...           CANYON...
  AMARILLO...           WILDORADO...          VALLEY DE ORO...
  UMBARGER...           SIMMS...              DAWN...
  BUSHLAND...           BUFFALO LAKE...       BOYS RANCH...
  BOOTLEG...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 108 AND 123.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 28 AND 72.

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

LAT...LON 3560 10232 3560 10164 3475 10199 3474 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 180DEG 20KT 3541 10209 3479 10261

JOHNSON

Local storm report, May 28, 4:18 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 4:44 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 4:46 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 4:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 4:54 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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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, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	65 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, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	31 min
May 28, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	37 min

Nearby

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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.