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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2014, 3:32 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 27, 2014, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2014, 4:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 Aug 27, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 3:00 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 300 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-281100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 300 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. NO ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...BUT A FEW STORMS MAY POSE A THREAT FOR LOCALIZED AND BRIEF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE PRIMARY THREAT HOWEVER WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN INSTANCES OF FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. INTERMITTENT PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MUCH OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. THE MOST LIKELY TIMEFRAME FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LATE THURSDAY...WHEN SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS. OTHERWISE...THE RISK OF ORGANIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING MAY INCREASE BY THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE ASKED TO RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING INFORMATION ABOUT FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING...TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN AMARILLO. CLK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:58 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:19 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 319 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2014 TXZ012-272100- POTTER TX- 319 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 318 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF AMARILLO...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3551 10193 3548 10164 3525 10175 3527 10195 TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 192DEG 13KT 3533 10183 KB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 3:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 39 min |
| Aug 27, 6:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 47 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.