A severe thunderstorm moved across the northeast Texas panhandle during the early morning hours producing high winds. no other damage and no injuries were reported.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm moved across the northeast Texas panhandle during the early morning hours producing high winds. Except for some downed tree limbs...no other damage and no injuries were reported.
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 Oct 30, 11:46 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1146 PM CST SUN OCT 30 2005 .UPDATE... STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH EMBEDDED BOW ECHOES MOVING ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WITH KGUY ASOS COMING IN WITH PEAK WIND GUST TO 51 KTS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO RACE ACROSS THE NRN PART OF THE FCST AREA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. UPDATED THE FCST TO SWITCH TO AERIAL QUALIFIERS ACROSS ALL ZONES AS PCPN IS ONGOING AND BUMPED UP POPS ACROSS THE NE TX AND ERN OK PNHDSL TO 100 PERCENT. REST OF THE FCST AREA WAS LEFT ALONE WITH REGARDS TO POPS AS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE MIGHT BE ENOUGH TO ALLOW SHRA TO OCCUR. ALSO SEEING MUCH FASTER PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT AS IT HAS COMBINED WITH OUTFLOW FROM STORMS TO SEND BOUNDARY RACING SOUTHWARD AT 35-40 MPH. UPDATED WIND AND DEWPT GRIDS AS WELL AS ALL DERIVED GRIDS THAT USE THOSE BASE FIELDS. UPDATED TEXT PRODUCTS WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. FCSTID = JORDAN && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 156 PM CST SUN OCT 30 2005) DISCUSSION... COMPLICATED WEATHER PATTERN COMING UP TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. MIDNIGHT SHIFT EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY...HOWEVER LOOKING AT LATEST MODELS...DECIDED TO HOLD OFF MENTIONING FROZEN PRECIP EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLY A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS CIMARRON COUNTY IN THE WESTERN OK PANHANDLE BY 12Z MONDAY. CANNOT RULE OUT PRECIP CHANGING OVER BRIEFLY TO SNOW IN THE EARLY MORNING WITH POSSIBLY A LIGHT ACCUMULATION THERE...BUT WITH THICKNESS VALUES FORECASTED TO REMAIN AROUND 548 TO 550 DM AND ABOVE AND 850 MB TEMPS FORECASTED TO BE 3 TO 5 GEG C AND ABOVE...FEEL THAT PRECIP WILL BE PREDOMINATELY IN LIQUID FORM. MODELS FAVORING THE NORTHEASTERN HALF OR THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA FOR PRECIP TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY WITH THE SOUTHWEST HALF OR TWO-THIRDS DRY FOR THE MOST PART. CHANGED THE POP GRID STRUCTURE TO FAVOR HIGHER POPS NORTHEAST AND LOW POPS SOUTHWEST. UPPER TROUGH FORECASTED TO PUSH ACROSS THE PANHANDLES LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY POSITIVELY-TILTED AND FAIRLY PROGRESSIVE. ANY PRECIP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY WILL BE QUICK TO MOVE OUT. COLD FRONT FORECASTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES BETWEEN 03Z AND 06Z MONDAY AND THEN ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLES AROUND 09Z MONDAY OR SO. GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS WITH WIND SPEEDS DIMINISHING BY LATE MONDAY AS COLD SURFACE HIGH BUILDS IN ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. AS THE UPPER TROUGH SLIDES OFF TO THE EAST BY 18Z MONDAY AND DRIER AIR WORKS DOWN INTO THE PANHANDLES ON NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT ON THE SUBSIDENT SIDE OF THE UPPER TROUGH...SKIES WILL CLEAR BY LATE MONDAY MORNING OR EARLY MONDAY AFTERNOON FROM WEST TO EAST. COOL NIGHT HALLOWEEN NIGHT...MONDAY NIGHT...WITH GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING CONDITIONS EXPECTED UNDER CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS AS SURFACE HIGH BUILDS IN OVER THE PANHANDLES REGION. WARMER AND DRY CONDITIONS STARTING TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS LEE SIDE SURFACE TROUGH DEVELOPS ACROSS EASTERN CO AND NM AND UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST THROUGH THE PERIOD. NEXT COLD FRONT FORECASTED BY LATE FRIDAY WITH NO PRECIP EXPECTED. ONLY SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS EXPECTED NEXT WEEKEND. && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 08/17
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 854 PM CST SUN OCT 30 2005 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-311200- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 854 PM CST SUN OCT 30 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. NUNEZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1216 AM CST MON OCT 31 2005 OKZ003-310700- BEAVER OK- 1216 AM CST MON OCT 31 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BEAVER COUNTY... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORGAN TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF BALKO AT 1216 AM CST...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. STORM INTENSITY IS INCREASING AND SEVERE WEATHER MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY. KRAMAR
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:25 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The high winds were measured at the Perryton ASOS station.
The high winds downed tree limbs which were about seven to eight inches in diameter near the courthouse. No injuries were reported.
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