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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 23, 20224 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2022, 4:34 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 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: Apr 23, 2022, 4:34 AM CDT (09:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2022, 4:42 AM CDT
In force: 8 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 2360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 364 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 18.1

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The text

As transmitted.

444 
WUUS54 KAMA 230934
SVRAMA
TXC179-211-295-393-231030-
/O.NEW.KAMA.SV.W.0021.220423T0934Z-220423T1030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
434 AM CDT Sat Apr 23 2022

The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Lipscomb County in the Panhandle of Texas...
  Northeastern Gray County in the Panhandle of Texas...
  Southeastern Roberts County in the Panhandle of Texas...
  Hemphill County in the Panhandle of Texas...

* Until 530 AM CDT.

* At 434 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Codman, or 5
  miles west of Miami, moving northeast at 60 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* Locations impacted include...
  Canadian, Miami, Glazier, Codman, Lake Marvin and Lora. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3554 10073 3572 10092 3621 10010 3582 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0934Z 237DEG 53KT 3568 10074 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH

$$

TLH

1 follow-up statement

909 
WWUS54 KAMA 230942
SVSAMA

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
442 AM CDT Sat Apr 23 2022

TXC179-211-295-393-230952-
/O.CAN.KAMA.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-220423T1030Z/
Lipscomb TX-Gray TX-Roberts TX-Hemphill TX-
442 AM CDT Sat Apr 23 2022

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LIPSCOMB...
NORTHEASTERN GRAY...SOUTHEASTERN ROBERTS AND HEMPHILL COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 3554 10073 3572 10092 3621 10010 3582 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0939Z 237DEG 53KT 3575 10061 

$$

TLH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	41 min
Apr 22, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	36 min
Apr 22, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	43 min
Apr 22, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	46 min
Apr 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Roberts	61 min
Apr 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	44 min
Apr 22, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	31 min
Apr 22, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	43 min
Apr 22, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Randall	62 min
Apr 22, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	53 min
Apr 22, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	20 min
Apr 22, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	56 min
Apr 22, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	37 min
Apr 23, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Sherman	54 min
Apr 23, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more	95 min
Apr 23, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	30 min
Apr 23, 3:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	26 min
Apr 23, 3:28 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	18 hr
Apr 23, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	28 min
Apr 23, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	41 min
Apr 23, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	24 min
Apr 23, 4:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	25 min
Apr 23, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	27 min
Apr 23, 12:39 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more	5 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.