and an isolated tornado. Damage from the hail was to crops in the southwest Texas panhandle.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms across the extreme western Texas panhandle produced large and damaging hail...damaging winds...funnel clouds...and an isolated tornado. Damage from the hail was to crops in the southwest Texas panhandle. Wind damage was to crops and a tractor trailer on Interstate 40 which was blown over. Also...two pivot sprinklers sustained major damage from the high winds in the southwest Texas panhandle.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 6, 2:21 PM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 321 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 .DISCUSSION... NEARLY FULL INSOLATION HAS ALLOWED THE AIRMASS OVER THE PANHANDLES TO BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. THE USUAL TSTMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PUSH ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 612 HAS ALREADY BEEN POSTED. HEAVY RAIN...WIND AND HAIL LOOK TO BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. MEANWHILE... DECENT CU/TCU FIELD HAS DEVELOPED OVER OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH...POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE FURTHER CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OVER THIS AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. UPPER AIR PATTERN DOES NOT CHANGE A WHOLE LOT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. HAVE NOT MADE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE LATER PERIODS EXCEPT TO ADD POPS TO THE THURSDAY NIGHT PERIOD. THE WESTERN ZONES ARE FAVORED AGAIN BASED ON PROXIMITY TO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE TSTM INITIATION IS MORE LIKELY. PRIMARY CHALLENGE WILL BE TO SEE HOW THE REMNANTS OF DENNIS PLAY OUT. WE MAY SEE LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE ACROSS THIS PORTION OF THE HIGH PLAINS SO INHERITED DRY FORECAST STILL LOOKS PLAUSIBLE. SLATTERY && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 13/02
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 313 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-071100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 313 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. THE COMBINATION OF DAYTIME HEATING...SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE... AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...AND AN APPROACHING WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM GUYMON OKLAHOMA TO AMARILLO TEXAS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY EVENING AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY EVENING ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANDRADE
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:12 UTC.
15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Off duty National Weather Service employee on U.S. Highway 87 just inside the Hartley county line reported that the storm was rotating.
Off duty National Weather Service employee on U.S. Highway 87 just inside the Hartley county line reported a few funnel clouds and that the storm was rotating.
Reported from off duty National Weather Service employee on U.S. Highway 87.
Reported from Farm to Market Road 722 and U.S. Highway 385.
Tornado verified from broadcast media video of brief touchdown with debris cloud. The tornado remained over open country and the tornado path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries were reported.
Damage reported to numerous buildings with metal roofs blown off.
Tractor trailer overturned on Interstate 40 due to the high winds and wind damage to crops in the area. Also...two pivot sprinklers sustained major damage four or five miles east of the town of Simms Texas. One pivot sprinkler was twisted and the other was completely turned over. No injuries reported.
Crops...mainly cotton and corn...were damaged by the large hail.
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