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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2026, 8:28 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 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 25, 2026, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2026, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 25 min |
| Aug 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter and 3 more | 58 min |
| Aug 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Moore | 114 min |
| Aug 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Randall | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 7 min |
| Aug 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 11:12 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 24 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.