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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 12, 2024Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2024, 7:32 AM CDT for Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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: May 12, 2024, 7:32 AM CDT (12:32 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2024, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:33 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 May 12, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 6:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 3:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 12, 1:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 6:37 AM CDT, 55 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
May 11, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	29 min
May 11, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	31 min
May 12, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	30 min
May 12, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	53 min
May 12, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	34 min
May 12, 6:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	23 min
May 12, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	33 min
May 12, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	32 min
May 12, 1:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	26 min
May 12, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	37 min
May 12, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	52 min
May 12, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	45 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	27 min
May 12, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	35 min
May 12, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Potter	37 min
May 12, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	35 min
May 12, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	27 min
May 12, 3:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr
May 12, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	32 min
May 12, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	29 min
May 12, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	24 min
May 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	32 min
May 12, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	29 min
May 12, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	34 min
May 12, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	35 min
May 12, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	34 min
May 12, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	25 min
May 12, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	30 min
May 12, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	29 min
May 12, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	41 min
May 12, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	33 min
May 12, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	46 min
May 12, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	48 min
May 12, 4:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	4 hr
May 12, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	49 min
May 12, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	44 min
May 12, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	51 min
May 12, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	36 min
May 12, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	51 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.