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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2014, 7:06 PM CDT for Dallam County, Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2014, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:15 PM CDT | TORNADO | 10 Wnw Channing, TX | |
| Jun 6, 7:24 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 11 Nw Channing, TX | ROOF PARTIALLY LIFTED FROM BARN. SHINGLES LIFTED FROM HOUSE. LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 6, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
797 WFUS54 KAMA 070006 TORAMA TXC111-205-070045- /O.NEW.KAMA.TO.W.0003.140607T0006Z-140607T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 706 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN HARTLEY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS... SOUTHEASTERN DALLAM COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 701 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES WEST OF CHANNING...OR 27 MILES SOUTH OF DALHART. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS SEVERE STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE... DALHART... HARTLEY... CONLEN... CHANNING... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. && LAT...LON 3628 10264 3628 10216 3563 10217 3563 10272 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 236DEG 15KT 3569 10254 $$ JC
1 follow-up statement
615 WWUS54 KAMA 070019 SVSAMA SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 719 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 TXC111-205-070045- /O.CON.KAMA.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-140607T0045Z/ DALLAM TX-HARTLEY TX- 719 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN HARTLEY AND SOUTHEASTERN DALLAM COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 715 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF CHANNING...OR 24 MILES SOUTH OF DALHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO INCLUDE... DALHART... HARTLEY... CONLEN... CHANNING... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 3 3 5 1 1 2 1. && LAT...LON 3628 10264 3628 10216 3563 10217 3563 10272 TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 236DEG 15KT 3572 10248 $$ JC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Sherman | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 7:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter, Randall | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 7:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Randall | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 7:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore, Roberts | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 8:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 9:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter, Randall | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 9:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 9:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 15 min |
| Jun 7, 12:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 38 min |
| Jun 7, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 6:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 8:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.