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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 12, 2023Dallam County, Hartley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2023, 5:50 AM CDT for Dallam County, Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 85 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 12, 2023, 5:50 AM CDT (10:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2023, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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 12, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 1144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 12, 3:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 4:50 AM CDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:01 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:05 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:06 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:17 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:40 AM CDT, 10 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 11, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	62 min
Jun 11, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	58 min
Jun 11, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	63 min
Jun 11, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	38 min
Jun 11, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Dallam	58 min
Jun 11, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	63 min
Jun 11, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	69 min
Jun 12, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	91 min
Jun 12, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	66 min
Jun 12, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam	86 min
Jun 12, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	54 min
Jun 12, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts	54 min
Jun 12, 4:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Potter, Roberts	69 min
Jun 12, 5:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	4 hr
Jun 12, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	53 min
Jun 12, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	76 min
Jun 12, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	33 min
Jun 12, 10:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	54 min
Jun 12, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	32 min
Jun 12, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler	65 min
Jun 12, 11:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	62 min
Jun 12, 12:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts, Wheeler	55 min
Jun 12, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	39 min
Jun 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	60 min
Jun 11, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	64 min
Jun 11, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	41 min
Jun 11, 9:17 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron	12 hr
Jun 11, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	33 min
Jun 11, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	38 min
Jun 11, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	41 min
Jun 12, 2:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	32 min
Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron	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.