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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 14, 2024Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2024, 5:59 PM CDT for Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 91 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: Jun 14, 2024, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2024, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -568 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 14, 2:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT, 33 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
Jun 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	49 min
Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Potter	41 min
Jun 13, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	50 min
Jun 13, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter, Randall	41 min
Jun 13, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Oldham	40 min
Jun 13, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Lipscomb	66 min
Jun 13, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Lipscomb	49 min
Jun 13, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	57 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	34 min
Jun 14, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	34 min
Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	95 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	33 min
Jun 13, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	48 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	51 min
Jun 14, 8:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Texas	3 hr

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.