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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 2024Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2024, 10:03 AM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 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 28, 2024, 10:03 AM CDT (15:03 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 28, 6:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:19 AM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:58 AM CDT, 6 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 9:09 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 9:34 AM CDT, 29 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 28, 2:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	24 min
May 28, 3:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	25 min
May 28, 9:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	36 min
May 28, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	36 min
May 28, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	55 min
May 28, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	65 min
May 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	65 min
May 28, 4:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith	3 hr
May 28, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	36 min
May 28, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Deaf Smith, Potter, Randall	55 min
May 28, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	64 min
May 28, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Oldham	31 min
May 28, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	59 min
May 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	64 min
May 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	63 min
May 28, 5:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Oldham	115 min
May 28, 5:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	3 hr
May 28, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Dallam	37 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	60 min
May 28, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	35 min
May 28, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	23 min
May 28, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Sherman	65 min
May 28, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	39 min
May 28, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	26 min
May 28, 10:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	37 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	34 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.