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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 22, 2023Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2023, 10:20 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 22, 2023, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2023, 11:25 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1782 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.7

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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 22, 7:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 2:39 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 7:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 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 23, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	32 min
Jun 23, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	35 min
Jun 23, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	30 min
Jun 23, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	35 min
Jun 23, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	64 min
Jun 23, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	41 min
Jun 23, 6:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	30 min
Jun 23, 6:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hartley	117 min
Jun 23, 6:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	24 min
Jun 23, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	65 min
Jun 23, 7:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	54 min
Jun 23, 8:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore	3 hr
Jun 23, 8:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	53 min
Jun 23, 8:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray, Roberts	2 hr
Jun 23, 8:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Roberts	3 hr
Jun 23, 9:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	53 min
Jun 23, 9:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	3 hr
Jun 23, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	35 min
Jun 23, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	31 min
Jun 23, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	47 min
Jun 23, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Potter, Randall	50 min
Jun 23, 5:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	51 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	40 min
Jun 23, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	23 min
Jun 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	24 min
Jun 23, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	68 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.