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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2025, 4:28 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 24, 2025, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2025, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 339 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
- 1449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 Jul 24, 12:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 12:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 1240 PM CDT Thu Jul 24 2025 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-250545- 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- 1240 PM CDT Thu Jul 24 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Strong to severe thunderstorms have a chance to transpire across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles this afternoon into tonight. Heavy rain and damaging winds are the primary hazards expected from this activity. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 24, 11:08 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 23 min |
| Jul 24, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 39 min |
| Jul 24, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 26 min |
| Jul 24, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler | 20 min |
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Wheeler | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 30 min |
| Jul 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 32 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.