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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 8, 20234 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2023, 10:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 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 8, 2023, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2023, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 293 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2023-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1845 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2023-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 7:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAPotter, Randall46 min
Aug 8, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Potter, Randall37 min
Aug 8, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong43 min
Aug 8, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADonley37 min
Aug 8, 9:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAArmstrong28 min
Aug 8, 10:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAGray39 min
Aug 8, 10:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADonley36 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.