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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 2013Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2013, 2:22 AM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 5, 2013, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2013, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 7.6

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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 Jun 5, 12:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 12:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:34 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:14 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:18 AM CDT, 4 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
Jun 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	46 min
Jun 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	65 min
Jun 4, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	63 min
Jun 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman	60 min
Jun 4, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	60 min
Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	63 min
Jun 5, 1:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	3 hr
Jun 5, 2:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	46 min
Jun 5, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	39 min
Jun 5, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	61 min
Jun 5, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	48 min
Jun 4, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	27 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	48 min
Jun 4, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	54 min
Jun 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	60 min
Jun 4, 11:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	31 min
Jun 5, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	40 min
Jun 5, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	46 min
Jun 5, 1:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	26 min
Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	31 min
Jun 5, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	42 min
Jun 5, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	58 min
Jun 5, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013 Every 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.