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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2014, 10:25 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. 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
- Jun 30, 2014, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2014, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 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 30, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
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 30, 6:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 6:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 618 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014 .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING IN COLORADO/NEW MEXICO AND HAVE A CHANCE TO IMPACT ALL TAF SITES IN THE PANHANDLES. HAVE MENTION OF VCTS DURING BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS AT EACH SITE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT SWITCHING WINDS TO OUT OF THE NORTH. LOW CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE BEHIND THE FRONT ESPECIALLY AT KAMA WHICH COULD LEAD TO MVR/IFR CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. WINDS WILL THEN REMAIN OUT OF THE NORTH/NORTHEAST THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. MOULTON && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 345 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014/ DISCUSSION... NO REAL CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. VERY GOOD PROSPECTS FOR RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST SECTIONS TONIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA BY SUNRISE TUESDAY...AND MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW PREVAILS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. ISENTROPIC LIFT PATTERN DEVELOPS ON WEDNESDAY. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN KEEPING AIRMASS LOADED WITH MOISTURE...SO POPS HAVE BEEN RETAINED THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS KEPT FOR THURSDAY NIGHT. FOR FRIDAY AND BEYOND...RISING MID-LEVEL HEIGHTS AND WARMER TEMPERATURES ALOFT SHOULD KEEP CONDITIONS MOSTLY DRY. 03 COCKRELL FIRE WEATHER... NO ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE ELEVATED AND CRITICAL THRESHOLDS. NO EXCESSIVE WINDS ARE EXPECTED. 03 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 19/11
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 6:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 634 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-011100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 634 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND WINDS TO 70 MPH. HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE BUT FLASH FLOODING WILL LIKELY BE THE BIGGEST THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THROUGH THURSDAY. SCHNEIDER
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 54 min |
| Jun 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 10:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson, Deaf Smith, Hutchinson, Oldham, Potter, Roberts | 39 min |
| Jun 30, 10:52 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hutchinson and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 66 min |
| Jun 30, 11:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 12:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 1:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 44 min |
| Jul 1, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 49 min |
| Jul 1, 5:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 61 min |
| Jun 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 62 min |
| Jun 30, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 61 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.