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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 2026, 2:50 PM CDT for Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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
- Sep 15, 2026, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2026, 3:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 32 min |
| Sep 15, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 24 min |
| Sep 15, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 36 min |
| Sep 15, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 24 min |
| Sep 15, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Carson | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 33 min |
| Sep 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 3:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Roberts | 37 min |
| Sep 15, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 35 min |
| Sep 15, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 32 min |
| Sep 15, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 36 min |
| Sep 15, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 25 min |
| Sep 15, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 32 min |
| Sep 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 19 min |
| Sep 15, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hemphill | 35 min |
| Sep 15, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 3 hr |
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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.