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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 21, 2026Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2026, 10:54 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 51 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
Jun 21, 2026, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2026, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 21, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2689 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
12.3

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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 Jun 21, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 10:49 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMAOchiltree67 min
Jun 21, 11:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMALipscomb52 min
Jun 22, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb, Ochiltree36 min
Jun 22, 2:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMALipscomb30 min
Jun 21, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMABeaver49 min
Jun 21, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas19 min
Jun 22, 1:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMABeaver25 min
Jun 22, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver, Texas50 min
Jun 22, 2:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMATexas28 min
Jun 22, 2:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMABeaver35 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.