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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2018, 4:37 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 7, 2018, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2018, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Collingsworth County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 Jun 7, 3:46 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:46 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 3:52 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 352 PM CDT Thu Jun 7 2018 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-081200- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 352 PM CDT Thu Jun 7 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected across mainly eastern parts of the Panhandles this afternoon and evening. A few storms could become strong to severe with damaging winds and large hail the primary hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Thunderstorms will be possible across parts of the Panhandles off and on through the next seven days. Some storms that form will have the potential to become strong to marginally severe, with damaging winds and large hail the primary hazards. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is requested in the eastern Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles this afternoon and evening.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 24 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.