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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2013, 8:24 PM CDT for Moore 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 8, 2013, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2013, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Moore County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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 8, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 654 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013 .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...LATEST ROUND OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS MOVG ACROSS TX AND OK PNHDLS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT AND MINOR UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM. EXPECT THIS FRONT TO MOVE ACROSS ALL TAF SITES THIS EVENING. WHETHER OR NOT TSTMS AFFECT ANY ONE PARTICULAR TAF SITE IS A LOW CONFIDENCE ELEMENT. DUE TO NEARBY TSTMS...DECIDED TO LEAVE MENTION OF VCTS AT KAMA FOR FIRST FEW HOURS OF THIS FCST CYCLE. OMITTED TSTMS AT KGUY AND KDHT AT THIS TIME. WILL CLOSELY MONITOR RADAR TRENDS THIS EVENING...AND AMENDMENTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ANDRADE && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 517 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013/ DISCUSSION... THE NEXT ROUND OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS CURRENTLY FORMING IN A LINEAR FASHION ACROSS OK PNHDL EXTENDING INTO NWRN TX PNHDL IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SFC COLD FRONT AND FAST MOVING MINOR UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF. HIGHEST POPS ERN ZONES AND LOWEST WRN SECTIONS TONIGHT. ALSO WENT WITH AREAL QUALIFIERS DESCRIPTIVE WORDING THIS EVENING ALONG WITH MENTION OF SVR...WITH MAIN HAZARDS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REDUCED POPS AFTER 06Z THIS EVENING INTO SLGT CHC TO LOW END CHANCE CATEGORY AS COLD FRONT CONTINUES ITS SOUTHWARD JOURNEY. LOOKS LIKE TONIGHT WILL BE THE LAST OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FCST AREA TO SEE RAIN FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 7 DAYS. AFTER TONIGHT...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE SCNTRL PLAINS STATES AND PERSIST THROUGH THE END OF THIS 7 DAY FCST PCKG. THIS WILL RESULT IN WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...WITH TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OR MOST OF THE FCST AREA BEGINNING MONDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY. IF THE ECMWF TEMPS VERIFY...SOME PARTS OF OUR FCST AREA MAY IMPINGE ON HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA AROUND THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AND THIS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A FEW HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS MAY BE IN JEOPARDY SOMETIME NEXT WEEK AS WELL. OVERALL...HAVE RETAINED INTEGRITY OF PREVIOUS FCST PCKG. ANDRADE FIRE WEATHER... NEITHER ELEVATED NOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AT THIS TIME DUE TO RECENT MODERATE TO HEAVY PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS DURING THIS PAST WEEK. ANDRADE && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 445 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-091100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 445 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THROUGH 11 PM...WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THROUGH THIS EVENING. ANDRADE
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 8, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 9:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Potter, Randall | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 10:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 59 min |
| Jun 8, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 11:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley, Gray | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Hutchinson, Potter | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 1:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 57 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.