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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 25, 2025Deaf Smith County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2025, 8:22 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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: May 25, 2025, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2025, 9:02 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 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 01:22 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
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 335 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: 1978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 May 25, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 12:42 PM CDT, 7 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 7:25 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	35 min
May 25, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	43 min
May 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter	55 min
May 25, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	65 min
May 25, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter	62 min
May 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Potter, Randall	52 min
May 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	29 min
May 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	27 min
May 25, 9:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	46 min
May 25, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	44 min
May 25, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley, Gray	44 min
May 25, 10:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Donley	3 hr
May 25, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	36 min
May 26, 10:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	33 min
May 26, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	23 min
May 26, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	33 min
May 26, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	34 min
May 26, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	29 min
May 26, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler	66 min
May 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	31 min
May 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	21 min
May 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	18 min
May 26, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Sherman	33 min
May 26, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	32 min
May 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	47 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree, Roberts	41 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	60 min
May 26, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	23 min
May 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	34 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray	34 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	31 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	39 min
May 25, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	36 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.