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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 14, 2023Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT for Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 14, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2023, 4:28 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ochiltree County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 2015 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -3.8

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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 Jul 14, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 3:03 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 1:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 2:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:39 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:43 AM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:47 AM CDT, 13 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
Jul 13, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	46 min
Jul 13, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	30 min
Jul 13, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	34 min
Jul 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	56 min
Jul 13, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam	45 min
Jul 13, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	63 min
Jul 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	65 min
Jul 13, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	32 min
Jul 13, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hartley	41 min
Jul 13, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	32 min
Jul 13, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	37 min
Jul 13, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	60 min
Jul 13, 11:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	30 min
Jul 13, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	45 min
Jul 14, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	24 min
Jul 14, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	62 min
Jul 14, 1:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Dallam	115 min
Jul 14, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Sherman	65 min
Jul 14, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	40 min
Jul 14, 2:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Potter	49 min
Jul 14, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Gray, Ochiltree, Roberts	47 min
Jul 14, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	45 min
Jul 14, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	63 min
Jul 13, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	68 min
Jul 13, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Cimarron	64 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.