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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2025, 4:04 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 86 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 29, 2025, 4:04 AM CDT (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2025, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 29, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 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 Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 3:12 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 312 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-292015- 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- 312 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. A Severe Thunderstorms Watch is in affect for Lipscomb, Hemphill, and Wheeler counties until 10 AM today for the potential of severe thunderstorms early this morning. Additional storms are possible later this afternoon in the southeastern Texas Panhandle. Some could become severe. The primary hazards today will be hail and damaging winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a low chance for strong to severe thunderstorms on Wednesday across portions of the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. The primary hazards with any severe thunderstorms will be large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms chances continue each day from Thursday through Monday across the Panhandles. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
400 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025
TXZ005-009-010-014-290930-
Hemphill TX-Gray TX-Roberts TX-Lipscomb TX-
400 AM CDT Tue Apr 29 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LIPSCOMB...
NORTHEASTERN GRAY...SOUTHEASTERN ROBERTS AND HEMPHILL COUNTIES
THROUGH 430 AM CDT...
At 400 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Miami, moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel 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...
Higgins, Canadian, Lora, Glazier, Codman, Lake Marvin, and Miami.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3562 10046 3562 10054 3559 10054 3554 10070
3570 10085 3625 10000 3577 10000
TIME...MOT...LOC 0900Z 236DEG 46KT 3569 10063
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
LGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 4:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Roberts | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:21 AM CDT | Flood Watch | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley | 22 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 28 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.