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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2021, 9:32 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- Mar 16, 2021, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 9:46 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Higgins, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
303 WUUS54 KAMA 170232 SVRAMA TXC295-170330- /O.NEW.KAMA.SV.W.0021.210317T0232Z-210317T0330Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Amarillo TX 932 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021 The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Lipscomb County in the Panhandle of Texas... * Until 1030 PM CDT. * At 932 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Higgins, or 14 miles southwest of Shattuck, moving northeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Higgins. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3606 10004 3623 10026 3647 10000 3606 10000 TIME...MOT...LOC 0232Z 222DEG 26KT 3612 10005 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ TLH
1 follow-up statement
166
WWUS54 KAMA 170321
SVSAMA
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1021 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021
TXC295-170331-
/O.EXP.KAMA.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-210317T0330Z/
Lipscomb TX-
1021 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 1030 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 300 AM CDT for
the Panhandle of Texas.
LAT...LON 3606 10004 3623 10026 3647 10000 3606 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 222DEG 26KT 3637 9977
$$
TLHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Roberts | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Roberts | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 9:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson, Roberts | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter, Roberts | 62 min |
| Mar 16, 10:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson | 43 min |
| Mar 16, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts and 1 more | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb | 27 min |
| Mar 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 67 min |
| Mar 16, 11:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts, Wheeler | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 3:16 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Wheeler | 15 hr |
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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.