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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 30, 2024Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2024, 2:26 PM CDT for Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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 30, 2024, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2024, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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 30, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 274 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 30, 12:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 12:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 1:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
122 PM CDT Thu May 30 2024

OKZ001-301845-
Cimarron OK-
122 PM CDT Thu May 30 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY
THROUGH 145 PM CDT...

At 121 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Kenton, or 25 miles west of Boise City, moving southeast at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Black Mesa Park, Kenton, and Wheeless.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3699 10256 3667 10283 3669 10300 3700 10300
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 296DEG 7KT 3687 10294

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

LFM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	37 min
May 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	28 min
May 29, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	31 min
May 29, 10:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	25 min
May 29, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	26 min
May 29, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	34 min
May 29, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	29 min
May 30, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	31 min
May 30, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	55 min
May 30, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	39 min
May 30, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	46 min
May 30, 4:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	47 min
May 30, 4:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	28 min
May 30, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter, Randall	47 min
May 30, 5:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	44 min
May 30, 5:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Roberts	52 min
May 30, 5:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Randall	49 min
May 30, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	47 min
May 30, 7:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	21 min
May 30, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	45 min
May 30, 2:36 PM CDT	Flood Watch	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	11 hr
May 30, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	64 min
May 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Dallam	3 hr
May 30, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Sherman	59 min
May 30, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Sherman	57 min
May 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore and 3 more	54 min
May 30, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham and 3 more	56 min
May 30, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
May 30, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 4 more	76 min
May 30, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	69 min
May 29, 11:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	28 min
May 29, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	30 min
May 29, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	65 min
May 30, 12:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron	3 hr
May 30, 12:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	34 min
May 30, 12:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Cimarron	2 hr
May 30, 12:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	31 min
May 30, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	16 min
May 30, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	23 min
May 30, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	63 min
May 30, 1:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron	3 hr
May 30, 3:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Cimarron	3 hr

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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.