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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 24, 2021Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2021, 8:52 PM CDT for Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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 24, 2021, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2021, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hansford County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 9:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 N Perryton, TX	SHERIFF CALLED AND REPORTED THAT A BARN HAD BEEN DESTROYED ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF PERRYTON, THERE WERE POWERLINES THAT HAD BEEN SNAPPED, AND TREES DOWN. TIME IS ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

036 
WUUS54 KAMA 250152
SVRAMA
TXC195-357-250245-
/O.NEW.KAMA.SV.W.0155.210625T0152Z-210625T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
852 PM CDT Thu Jun 24 2021

The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Eastern Hansford County in the Panhandle of Texas...
  Ochiltree County in the Panhandle of Texas...

* Until 945 PM CDT.

* At 852 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Farnsworth,
  or 10 miles west of Perryton, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Automated weather equipment. At 842 PM CDT, automated 
           weather equipment recorded a 70 mph wind gust at Palo 
           Duro Reservoir.

  IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. 
           Hail damage to vehicles is expected.

* Locations impacted include...
  Perryton, Spearman, Wolf Creek Park, Waka and Farnsworth. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3605 10137 3637 10130 3645 10109 3650 10055
      3606 10055
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 258DEG 35KT 3635 10100 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Ferguson

1 follow-up statement

212 
WWUS54 KAMA 250210
SVSAMA

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
910 PM CDT Thu Jun 24 2021

TXC195-357-250245-
/O.CON.KAMA.SV.W.0155.000000T0000Z-210625T0245Z/
Hansford TX-Ochiltree TX-
910 PM CDT Thu Jun 24 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD AND OCHILTREE COUNTIES...

At 909 PM CDT, automated weather equipment reported a severe
thunderstorm was located 4 miles northwest of Perryton, moving east
at 40 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Automated weather equipment.

IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail 
         damage to vehicles is expected.

Locations impacted include...
Perryton, Wolf Creek Park, Waka and Farnsworth. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3606 10116 3636 10112 3645 10109 3650 10055
      3606 10055
TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 250DEG 34KT 3642 10089 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Ferguson

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hansford, Moore, Oldham, Potter	28 min
Jun 24, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall	35 min
Jun 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	37 min
Jun 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Potter, Randall, Roberts	33 min
Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	45 min
Jun 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	28 min
Jun 25, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	55 min
Jun 25, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham, Potter	59 min
Jun 25, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	51 min
Jun 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	63 min
Jun 25, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	34 min
Jun 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley, Gray	54 min
Jun 25, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	79 min
Jun 25, 3:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	3 hr
Jun 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	41 min
Jun 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts, Wheeler	64 min
Jun 25, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	66 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	47 min
Jun 25, 4:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Donley, Gray	3 hr
Jun 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	28 min
Jun 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	25 min
Jun 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	57 min
Jun 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	37 min
Jun 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson	73 min
Jun 25, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	89 min
Jun 25, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	69 min
Jun 25, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	53 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.