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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2026, 9:53 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 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
- Aug 6, 2026, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2026, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 Aug 6, 9:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 9:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 6, 10:17 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | AMA | Randall | 23 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 12:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 1:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 68 min |
| Aug 7, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter, Randall | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 4:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter, Randall | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 5:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 11:49 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | AMA | Collingsworth, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Harper | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 9:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 12:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 49 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.