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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2017, 3:32 PM CDT for Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 27, 2017, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2017, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hansford County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 353 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 Jul 27, 12:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 12:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 26 min |
| Jul 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 38 min |
| Jul 26, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter, Randall | 117 min |
| Jul 26, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 36 min |
| Jul 26, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 8:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 23 min |
| Jul 26, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 9:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 1:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | AMA | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 27 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 33 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.