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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 22, 2019Deaf Smith County, Hartley County, Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2019, 2:55 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Hartley County, Oldham County, Texas. 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: Mar 22, 2019, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 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 Mar 22, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 22, 10:41 AM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1041 AM CDT FRI MAR 22 2019

TXZ011-221630-
Oldham TX-
1041 AM CDT FRI MAR 22 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL OLDHAM COUNTY UNTIL 1130
AM CDT...

At 1040 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles west of Adrian, or 18 miles west of Vega, moving northeast at
35 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Adrian.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Take shelter in a sturdy building if threatening weather approaches.

&&

LAT...LON 3519 10263 3526 10290 3562 10283 3562 10232
TIME...MOT...LOC 1540Z 211DEG 28KT 3529 10275

JC

Special weather statement, Mar 22, 11:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1136 AM CDT FRI MAR 22 2019

OKZ001-TXZ001-221715-
Cimarron OK-Dallam TX-
1136 AM CDT FRI MAR 22 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN CIMARRON AND
NORTHWESTERN DALLAM COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM CDT...

At 1136 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Texline, or 11 miles southeast of Clayton, moving northeast at 45
mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Boise City, Texline, Wheeless and Felt.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Take shelter in a sturdy building if threatening weather approaches.

&&

LAT...LON 3650 10304 3650 10300 3688 10300 3669 10236
      3619 10287 3628 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 1636Z 224DEG 40KT 3637 10299

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 10:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	49 min
Mar 22, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	31 min
Mar 22, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	87 min
Mar 22, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	32 min
Mar 22, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore	46 min
Mar 22, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	86 min
Mar 22, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	48 min
Mar 22, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	33 min
Mar 22, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Oldham	25 min
Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	48 min
Mar 22, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	46 min
Mar 22, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Potter, Randall	23 min
Mar 22, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	33 min
Mar 22, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham and 2 more	84 min
Mar 22, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	30 min
Mar 22, 11:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	39 min
Mar 22, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.