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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 23, 20266 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2026, 7:26 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 64 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 23, 2026, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2026, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 23, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1068 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 23, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 12:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 6:29 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 6:55 PM CDT, 31 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 23, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham and 2 more	53 min
May 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Hutchinson, Potter and 2 more	64 min
May 23, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	61 min
May 23, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	35 min
May 23, 8:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 23, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Randall and 1 more	59 min
May 23, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree, Roberts	41 min
May 23, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith	88 min
May 23, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Randall	53 min
May 23, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	46 min
May 23, 9:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	78 min
May 23, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Wheeler	63 min
May 23, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Ochiltree	44 min
May 23, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	46 min
May 23, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	31 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.