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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2024, 5:16 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 1, 2024, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 Aug 1, 2:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 246 PM CDT Thu Aug 1 2024 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-020800- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 246 PM CDT Thu Aug 1 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop this afternoon and evening with best chances focused in the northern Panhandles. Storms do have the potential to turn severe, with the main threat being hail up to an inch in size and wind gusts of 60 mph. Localized flooding may also be present with storms in the north as well. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Potential for more showers and thunderstorm Friday and Saturday with isolated storms becoming strong to severe. Otherwise, concerns will once again turn to heat for the start of next week as multiple locations look to be in the triple digits. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 4:54 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 11:29 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | AMA | Randall | 9 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 5:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 91 min |
| Aug 1, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Hartley | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 97 min |
| Aug 1, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 57 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.