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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 8, 20225 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2022, 6:26 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 34 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 8, 2022, 6:26 AM CDT (11:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 2623 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 8, 5:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 5:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 5:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:33 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:44 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:53 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:19 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:20 AM CDT, 6 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 7, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	54 min
Jun 7, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	71 min
Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	65 min
Jun 7, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	66 min
Jun 7, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith	48 min
Jun 7, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
Jun 8, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	38 min
Jun 8, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Sherman	62 min
Jun 8, 5:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	26 min
Jun 8, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more	65 min
Jun 8, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter and 2 more	58 min
Jun 8, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Potter and 2 more	69 min
Jun 8, 6:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts, Wheeler	46 min
Jun 8, 7:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 8, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	63 min
Jun 7, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	66 min
Jun 7, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	65 min
Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	61 min
Jun 7, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Texas	59 min
Jun 7, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	40 min
Jun 7, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Texas	66 min
Jun 7, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	61 min
Jun 8, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	36 min
Jun 8, 12:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	27 min
Jun 8, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	37 min
Jun 8, 2:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Beaver, Texas	3 hr
Jun 8, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	81 min
Jun 8, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	24 min
Jun 8, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	44 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.