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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 26, 2014Potter County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2014, 4:48 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
May 26, 2014, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
57 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 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2014-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 12:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAArmstrong57 min
May 26, 1:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHutchinson61 min
May 26, 2:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHutchinson59 min
May 26, 2:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACollingsworth, Donley57 min
May 26, 2:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHansford, Roberts63 min
May 26, 4:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMARandall38 min

Nearby

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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.