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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2013, 3:09 PM CDT for Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 7, 2013, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hansford County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 7, 2:52 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:52 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 252 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2013 .DISCUSSION... ACTIVE NORTHWESTERLY FLOW PATTERN THROUGH SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT AS SHORTWAVES CONTINUE TO TRACK SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. CONVECTION EXPECTED TO BE CONFINED TO MAINLY THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS THROUGH SATURDAY. UPPER HIGH BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST NEXT WEEK ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION SUNDAY...AND THEN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND WEST TEXAS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. CANNOT RULE OUT POSSIBLE CONVECTION MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY TRACKS AROUND THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER HIGH...HOWEVER CONFIDENCE TOO LOW TO MENTION AT THIS TIME. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CLOSELY. OTHERWISE...HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS NEXT WEEK THROUGH FRIDAY. SCHNEIDER && .FIRE WEATHER... NO ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. ALTHOUGH ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE EITHER MONDAY OR TUESDAY OR BOTH DAYS BASED ON POSSIBLE 20 FOOT WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS AND MINIMUM AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 20 PERCENT OR LESS...ANY ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE CONDITIONAL AND BASED ON FORECAST FIRE DANGER RATING. WILL HOLD OFF MENTIONING IN THE FIRE WEATHER PRODUCTS AT THIS TIME DUE TO LOW CONFIDENCE AND CONDITIONAL NATURE OF POSSIBLE EVENT. SCHNEIDER && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMARILLO TX 60 88 63 92 67 / 40 20 40 10 5 BEAVER OK 58 90 64 93 68 / 20 30 50 10 5 BOISE CITY OK 59 89 61 92 65 / 30 20 20 0 5 BORGER TX 63 89 68 95 71 / 40 30 40 10 5 BOYS RANCH TX 62 91 65 97 68 / 50 30 30 0 5 CANYON TX 60 88 63 93 66 / 40 20 30 5 5 CLARENDON TX 61 88 65 92 69 / 30 20 40 10 5 DALHART TX 58 89 60 93 64 / 50 20 20 0 5 GUYMON OK 58 91 63 95 67 / 30 30 30 10 5 HEREFORD TX 59 90 62 92 65 / 50 20 30 0 5 LIPSCOMB TX 62 88 63 91 68 / 20 30 50 10 5 PAMPA TX 58 88 65 91 68 / 30 30 50 10 5 SHAMROCK TX 62 87 66 92 69 / 20 20 50 10 5 WELLINGTON TX 61 90 69 94 69 / 20 20 50 10 5 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 13/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:28 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 228 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2013 TXZ003-004-072000- HANSFORD TX-OCHILTREE TX- 228 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN OCHILTREE AND SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRUVER...OR 8 MILES WEST OF SPEARMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPEARMAN... WAKA... 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 3628 10097 3607 10102 3612 10144 3632 10137 TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 279DEG 23KT 3621 10131 JACKSON
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:00 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2013 TXZ003-004-072030- HANSFORD TX-OCHILTREE TX- 300 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN OCHILTREE AND SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM CDT... AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF SPEARMAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPEARMAN... WAKA... FARNSWORTH... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3630 10081 3607 10089 3607 10129 3639 10118 TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 297DEG 17KT 3625 10117 JACKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Roberts | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 66 min |
| Jun 7, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 38 min |
| Jun 7, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Roberts | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Cimarron | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.