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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2024, 7:38 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 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 15, 2024, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2024, 8:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 49 min |
| May 15, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 27 min |
| May 15, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Deaf Smith, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 1 more | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 2 more | 36 min |
| May 15, 8:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| May 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 30 min |
| May 16, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 31 min |
| May 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.