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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2023, 11:46 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 5, 2023, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2023, 12:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Jul 5, 7:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 7:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 239 PM CDT Wed Jul 5 2023 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-060745- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 239 PM CDT Wed Jul 5 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, with increasing chances this evening into tonight. These chances will range from 60 to 70 percent in the Oklahoma Panhandle to around 20 to 30 percent in the southern Texas Panhandle. Some of these storms will be strong to severe with initial threats being hail up to 2 inches in diameter, 70mph wind gusts and a tornado or two. Late tonight into the overnight, a line of storms will drop south into the combined Panhandles and bring the main risk of damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Additional storms may be possible later Thursday and Friday afternoons into the evening hours. Some of these storms could be strong to severe. Thunderstorms will also be possible through the weekend but severity and coverage potential will be monitored on a day by day basis. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon into this evening.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 73 min |
| Jul 5, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 76 min |
| Jul 5, 11:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 12:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 12:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 12:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 89 min |
| Jul 6, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 2:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 3:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 4:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 4:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 5:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 5:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 85 min |
| Jul 6, 1:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 2:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 7:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 34 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.