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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 2019Hartley County, Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2019, 5:17 PM CDT for Hartley County, Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 5, 2019, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2019, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 404 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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 5, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:56 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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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 4, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	28 min
Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	55 min
Jun 4, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	57 min
Jun 4, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	65 min
Jun 4, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Sherman	57 min
Jun 4, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham	59 min
Jun 4, 10:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	3 hr
Jun 4, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	51 min
Jun 4, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter, Randall	60 min
Jun 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	60 min
Jun 4, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	58 min
Jun 4, 11:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 5, 12:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	3 hr
Jun 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	58 min
Jun 5, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	52 min
Jun 5, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	55 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	58 min
Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	60 min
Jun 5, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	62 min
Jun 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	64 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	59 min
Jun 5, 5:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hartley, Moore	3 hr
Jun 5, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter, Randall	57 min
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	62 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	59 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	52 min
Jun 5, 6:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	2 hr
Jun 5, 12:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	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.