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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2024, 10:01 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 8, 2024, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2024, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 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 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 8, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 238 PM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-091100- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 238 PM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Thunderstorms may develop tonight across the southern Texas Panhandle. A storm or two will have the potential to become severe across the far southeast Texas Panhandle with hail up to the size of quarters and thunderstorm wind gusts to around 60 mph the primary hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Thunderstorms are possible Tuesday through Wednesday morning mainly across the southern Texas Panhandle. Any storms that develop are expected to remain below severe levels at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time. 02
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
900 PM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024
TXZ020-090230-
Collingsworth TX-
900 PM CDT Mon Apr 8 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN COLLINGSWORTH
COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM CDT...
At 859 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles northwest of Dodson, or 8 miles east of Wellington, moving
northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Dodson.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3475 10009 3480 10020 3512 10005 3510 10000
3475 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0159Z 208DEG 21KT 3483 10006
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
Vanden BoschSpecial weather statement, Apr 8, 9:16 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Collingsworth | 24 min |
| Apr 9, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 63 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.