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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2014, 6:46 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Oct 9, 2014, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Potter County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 Oct 9, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 9, 12:27 PM CDT, 6 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1227 PM CDT THU OCT 9 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-100530- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 1227 PM CDT THU OCT 9 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THE RISK FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING COULD INCREASE OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO FLASH FLOODING COULD BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BECOME NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
623 PM CDT THU OCT 9 2014
TXZ011-012-100000-
OLDHAM TX-POTTER TX-
623 PM CDT THU OCT 9 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN POTTER AND EASTERN OLDHAM
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT...
AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF WILDORADO...OR 12 MILES EAST OF
VEGA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VALLEY DE ORO...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. 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 3551 10203 3536 10186 3527 10210 3525 10223
3532 10231
TIME...MOT...LOC 2323Z 233DEG 28KT 3531 10220
NFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 37 min |
| Oct 9, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 48 min |
| Oct 9, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 58 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.