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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 26, 2025Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2025, 4:09 AM CDT for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 26, 2025, 4:09 AM CDT (09:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2025, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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
Apr 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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 Apr 26, 1:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 25, 10:37 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1037 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0947 PM     Funnel Cloud     5 E Bootleg             34.84N 102.72W
04/25/2025                   Deaf Smith         TX   Storm Chaser

            Funnel persisted for 30 seconds. Less than 1
            mile north of F.M. road 1058.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 25, 10:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1047 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1032 PM     Tornado          8 ENE Bootleg           34.85N 102.67W
04/25/2025                   Deaf Smith         TX   Fire Dept/Rescue

            Fire fighter dispatch reports a tornado
            viewing from the intersection of FM 1058 and
            FM 1057.

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 12:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1226 AM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1136 PM     Tornado          2 NNW Canyon            35.00N 101.93W
04/25/2025                   Randall            TX   Public

            Preliminary report; noted debris in church
            parking lot across the street from the
            location reported.

&&

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 12:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1242 AM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1226 AM     Flood            8 ESE Bushland          35.13N 101.94W
04/26/2025                   Randall            TX   Public

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Oldham, Potter	3 hr
Apr 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter	36 min
Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	35 min
Apr 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Potter	47 min
Apr 25, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith	56 min
Apr 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Deaf Smith	67 min
Apr 25, 8:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	3 hr
Apr 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	67 min
Apr 25, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	29 min
Apr 25, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	31 min
Apr 25, 10:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	4 hr
Apr 25, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	31 min
Apr 25, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	46 min
Apr 25, 11:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	26 min
Apr 25, 11:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	24 min
Apr 25, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	3 hr
Apr 25, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	54 min
Apr 26, 12:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	11 min
Apr 26, 12:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	26 min
Apr 26, 12:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
Apr 26, 12:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	9 min
Apr 26, 12:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	14 min
Apr 26, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	65 min
Apr 26, 1:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	29 min
Apr 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Randall	4 hr
Apr 26, 1:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	25 min
Apr 26, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	4 hr
Apr 26, 3:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley	4 hr
Apr 26, 5:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	AMA	Armstrong	3 hr
Apr 26, 5:37 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth	18 hr
Apr 26, 6:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	4 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.