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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 5, 2025Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2025, 7:56 PM CDT for Beaver County, Texas 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: Jul 5, 2025, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	56 min
Jul 5, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	61 min
Jul 5, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	25 min
Jul 5, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	59 min
Jul 5, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	25 min
Jul 5, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	64 min
Jul 5, 9:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	3 hr
Jul 5, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Potter, Randall	31 min
Jul 5, 11:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford	113 min
Jul 5, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	25 min
Jul 5, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	36 min
Jul 5, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	34 min

Nearby

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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.