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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2023, 6:35 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- May 23, 2023, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2023, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 May 23, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes 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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| May 22, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 60 min |
| May 22, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 63 min |
| May 22, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 4 hr |
| May 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 64 min |
| May 22, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 46 min |
| May 22, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 57 min |
| May 22, 9:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| May 22, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree, Roberts | 60 min |
| May 22, 10:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 39 min |
| May 23, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 27 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.