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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2024, 3:21 PM CDT for Hemphill County, Lipscomb County, Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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 19, 2024, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2024, 3:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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 19, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Lipscomb | 23 min |
| May 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 59 min |
| May 19, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 14 min |
| May 19, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 26 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.