Severe thunderstorms across the southern and southeastern Texas panhandle during the early evening hours produced damaging winds but no injuries.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms across the southern and southeastern Texas panhandle during the early evening hours produced damaging winds but no injuries.
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 Aug 3, 2:26 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 326 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT FROM ROUGHLY NARA VISA TO CHILDRESS. CONVECTION IS PRETTY EVENLY SPACED ALONG THE FRONT AND MOVING NORTHEAST. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR FLOODING POTENTIAL...BUT OTHERWISE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH A SATURATED ATMOSPHERE NOT CONDUCIVE FOR STRONG DOWNBURSTS OR HIGH INSTABILITY FOR HAIL. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ARE PROPOGATING SOUTHWESTWARD WHICH SHOULD ACT AS A FOCUS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. THUS HAVE HIGHEST POPS IN THE SOUTHWEST TAPERING OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. PRECIP CHANCES TOMORROW WILL DEPEND ON THE POSITION OF THE FRONT WHICH MODELS SHOW LIFTING NORTH OF THE AREA. THIS MAY BE A LITTLE FAST SO LEFT POPS IN FOR MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH TOMORROW NIGHT. THE WEEKEND WILL BE WARMER AND DRIER AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TO THE EAST BEGINS TO BUILD BACK TO THE WEST OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF INDICATE WE WILL REMAIN ON THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH WHICH COULD KEEP LOW LEVEL WINDS FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST MAINTAINING SOME LOW LEVEL AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE. WENT CLOSE OR JUST ABOVE MEX GUIDANCE DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD DUE TO THESE CONCERNS. HENNIG && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMARILLO TX 66 89 67 93 / 50 20 10 0 BEAVER OK 68 91 69 100 / 40 30 20 0 BOISE CITY OK 65 87 65 94 / 50 30 10 0 BORGER TX 71 93 73 99 / 50 20 10 0 BOYS RANCH TX 67 92 67 97 / 50 20 10 0 CANYON TX 65 89 64 94 / 50 20 10 0 CLARENDON TX 68 92 69 96 / 40 20 10 0 DALHART TX 64 88 63 95 / 50 20 10 0 GUYMON OK 68 92 69 99 / 50 30 10 0 HEREFORD TX 64 88 64 92 / 50 20 10 0 LIPSCOMB TX 67 92 70 100 / 50 30 20 0 PAMPA TX 68 90 71 95 / 50 20 10 0 SHAMROCK TX 68 95 69 99 / 50 20 20 0 WELLINGTON TX 70 97 71 98 / 40 20 20 0 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 11/10
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-041100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ALTHOUGH NO ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT MAINLY IN THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SCHNEIDER
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 324 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 TXZ013-018-032130- ARMSTRONG-CARSON- 324 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN ARMSTRONG AND SOUTHERN CARSON COUNTIES... AT 320 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ARMSTRONG AND SOUTHERN CARSON COUNTIES OR FROM NEAR CLAUDE TO JUST EAST OF WASHBURN. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...STRONG WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN RAPID PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 40 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287 FROM CLAUDE TO EAST OF WASHBURN. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN ARMSTRONG AND SOUTHERN CARSON COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SCHNEIDER
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 431 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 TXZ014-032230- GRAY TX- 431 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN GRAY COUNTY... AT 431 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES SOUTH OF KINGSMILL TO ALANREED MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...WHICH MAY IMPACT TRAFFIC ALONG INTERSTATE 40. RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED. PEOPLE IN GRAY COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF PAMPA...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. KRAMAR
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 453 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 TXZ015-032300- WHEELER TX- 453 PM CDT THU AUG 3 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WHEELER COUNTY... AT 453 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF LELA MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. ONE HALF INCH SIZE HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN WHEELER COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF SHAMROCK...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY...LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. KRAMAR
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:58 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wood frame barn seven feet tall...fifty feet long...and twenty feet wide was moved twenty feet by the high winds. The barn crushed two horse trailers...a small grain silo and a chain link fence.
An old barn was reported blown down by the high winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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