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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 19, 2024Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2024, 5:48 AM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 42 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 19, 2024, 5:48 AM CDT (10:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2024, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 2281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.0

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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 19, 2:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 12:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 12:49 AM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 12:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 1:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 2:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:44 AM CDT, 4 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 18, 11:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	12 hr
Jun 19, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	45 min
Jun 19, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman	64 min
Jun 19, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	64 min
Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	4 hr
Jun 19, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Sherman	63 min
Jun 19, 2:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	4 hr
Jun 19, 3:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree	4 hr
Jun 19, 7:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Roberts, Sherman	6 hr
Jun 19, 9:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 19, 10:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	3 hr
Jun 19, 10:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Randall	75 min
Jun 19, 10:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	3 hr
Jun 19, 10:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	24 min
Jun 19, 11:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	2 hr
Jun 19, 2:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	18 hr
Jun 18, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	61 min
Jun 18, 8:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Beaver, Texas	77 min
Jun 18, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	64 min
Jun 18, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	59 min
Jun 18, 9:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	8 hr
Jun 18, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	53 min
Jun 18, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	64 min
Jun 18, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Texas	13 hr
Jun 18, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	31 min
Jun 18, 10:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	3 hr
Jun 18, 11:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	7 hr
Jun 18, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	63 min
Jun 19, 5:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	31 min
Jun 19, 11:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	AMA	Texas	21 hr

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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.