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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 2025Deaf Smith County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2025, 10:14 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 5, 2025, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2025, 10:43 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2238 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
10.7

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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 Jun 5, 6:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 10:03 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 10:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADeaf Smith42 min
Jun 5, 11:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADeaf Smith49 min
Jun 5, 11:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADallam29 min
Jun 6, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMAHansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree55 min
Jun 6, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMAHemphill, Lipscomb48 min
Jun 6, 2:29 PM CDTFlood WatchAMAHansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more20 hr
Jun 5, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron66 min
Jun 5, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMATexas64 min
Jun 5, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver, Texas67 min
Jun 6, 12:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMABeaver2 hr
Jun 6, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver43 min
Jun 6, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron51 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMACimarron61 min
Jun 6, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron29 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.