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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 7, 2023Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2023, 3:12 AM CDT for Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. 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: Aug 7, 2023, 3:12 AM CDT (08:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2023, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 364 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: 2057 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 25.5

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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 Aug 6, 6:24 PM CDT, 8 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:24 PM CDT, 8 hours 48 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
Aug 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	46 min
Aug 7, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	64 min
Aug 7, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	44 min
Aug 7, 2:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	27 min
Aug 7, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	27 min
Aug 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	29 min

Nearby

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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.