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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 11, 2014Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2014, 5:55 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. 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 11, 2014, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -608 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 11, 4:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
325 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-121100-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
325 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES
THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AS THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ACROSS MUCH
OF THE PANHANDLES. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 1:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
444 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

OKZ001-112230-
CIMARRON OK-
444 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN CIMARRON COUNTY UNTIL
530 PM CDT...

AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES EAST OF BLACK MESA PARK...OR 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BOISE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN CIMARRON COUNTY.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3694 10233 3678 10274 3696 10280 3700 10257
      3700 10244
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 244DEG 13KT 3690 10268

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
537 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

OKZ001-002-112315-
CIMARRON OK-TEXAS OK-
537 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME WESTERN TEXAS AND
NORTHERN CIMARRON COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF
BOISE CITY TO 4 MILES SOUTH OF KENTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WHEELESS...           KEYES...              KENTON...
  BLACK MESA PARK...    STURGIS...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3700 10219 3683 10192 3667 10301 3700 10301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 266DEG 26KT 3688 10244 3684 10295

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	46 min
Jun 11, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	38 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.