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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 25, 2021Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2021, 8:21 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2021, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2021, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Moore County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted.

691 
WWUS84 KAMA 260121
SPSAMA

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
821 PM CDT Tue May 25 2021
 
TXZ007-008-260215-
Hutchinson TX-Moore TX-
821 PM CDT Tue May 25 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN HUTCHINSON AND
EASTERN MOORE COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

At 821 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southeast of Dumas, moving northeast at 20 mph.

Up to nickel size hail and wind gusts of up to 55 mph will be 
possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Pringle.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Take shelter in a sturdy building if threatening weather approaches.
 
&&

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for
the Panhandle of Texas.

LAT...LON 3606 10167 3605 10146 3590 10129 3567 10183
      3581 10197
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 229DEG 18KT 3579 10184 

$$

Ferguson

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	62 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	30 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	53 min
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	35 min
May 25, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	56 min
May 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	34 min
May 25, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	24 min
May 25, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	53 min
May 25, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	35 min
May 25, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	36 min
May 25, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	66 min
May 25, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	27 min
May 25, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	26 min
May 25, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	36 min
May 26, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	59 min
May 26, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	32 min
May 26, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	64 min
May 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	60 min
May 26, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	26 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford	52 min
May 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Potter	62 min
May 26, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	49 min
May 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	32 min
May 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Hansford	51 min
May 26, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	70 min
May 26, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	53 min
May 26, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Potter, Roberts	62 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	58 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 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.