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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 27, 2024Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2024, 4:53 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 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 27, 2024, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -226 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 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 27, 4:32 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 4:32 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:18 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:53 PM CDT, 0 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 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	37 min
Jun 26, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	33 min
Jun 26, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	34 min
Jun 26, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	54 min
Jun 26, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	25 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Carson	65 min
Jun 26, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong	40 min
Jun 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Donley	3 hr
Jun 26, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	53 min
Jun 26, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	29 min
Jun 27, 12:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Lipscomb	119 min
Jun 27, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	16 min
Jun 27, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	30 min
Jun 27, 3:02 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth, Randall	17 hr
Jun 27, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	25 min
Jun 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	49 min
Jun 27, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	42 min
Jun 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	37 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.