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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 16, 20245 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2024, 5:37 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 53 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 16, 2024, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2024, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 850 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 2:36 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryAMAArmstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Randall, Wheeler29 hr
Aug 16, 3:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAPotter24 min
Aug 16, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHansford26 min
Aug 16, 3:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAPotter66 min
Aug 16, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford, Sherman29 min
Aug 16, 4:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMARandall27 min
Aug 16, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACarson49 min
Aug 16, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMARandall48 min
Aug 16, 5:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAArmstrong49 min
Aug 16, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMARandall29 min
Aug 16, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADeaf Smith25 min
Aug 16, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADonley65 min
Aug 16, 6:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAHemphill67 min
Aug 16, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill62 min
Aug 16, 2:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMACimarron32 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.