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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 20234 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2023, 3:12 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 63 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: May 31, 2023, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2023, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 2589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 31, 12:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 12:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 1:41 PM CDT, 13 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 1:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 1:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 1:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:47 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 2:51 AM CDT, 21 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
May 30, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	33 min
May 30, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	34 min
May 30, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	25 min
May 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Sherman	23 min
May 30, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore, Oldham, Sherman	26 min
May 30, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Moore, Potter	31 min
May 30, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter	46 min
May 30, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	59 min
May 31, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	22 min
May 31, 12:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 31, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	29 min
May 31, 12:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	24 min
May 31, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	23 min
May 31, 1:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	29 min
May 31, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	27 min
May 31, 1:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	41 min
May 31, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	30 min
May 31, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	28 min
May 31, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	28 min
May 31, 2:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	24 min
May 31, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	25 min
May 31, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	24 min
May 31, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	31 min
May 31, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	34 min
May 31, 3:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Moore	3 hr
May 31, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	32 min
May 31, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	31 min
May 31, 4:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Oldham	3 hr
May 31, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	66 min
May 31, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Moore, Potter	31 min
May 31, 4:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Donley	3 hr
May 31, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley	27 min
May 31, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	66 min
May 31, 5:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 31, 5:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	26 min
May 31, 6:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	34 min
May 31, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	33 min
May 31, 6:47 AM CDT	Flood Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	39 hr
May 31, 8:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong	97 min
May 31, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	36 min
May 31, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	53 min
May 31, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham	60 min
May 31, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	28 min
May 31, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	53 min
May 31, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	24 min
May 31, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	32 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	40 min
May 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	34 min
May 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	58 min
May 31, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	23 min
May 31, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	33 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.