A severe thunderstorm produced a small rope tornado during the early evening hours in extreme southern Deaf Smith county west of Ranch Road 1057 and just north of County Road 1 which continued northwest to west of County Road MM and south of County Road 5. No damage or injuries were reported.
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A severe thunderstorm produced a small rope tornado during the early evening hours in extreme southern Deaf Smith county west of Ranch Road 1057 and just north of County Road 1 which continued northwest to west of County Road MM and south of County Road 5. No damage or 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 Jul 28, 2:49 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 349 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 .DISCUSSION... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON IN A HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE TX AND OK PNHDLS. WITH 700MB DEWPTS ALMOST 9 DEG C ONCE AGAIN...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE ACROSS THE SRN TX PNHDL AND OK PNHDL WHERE MOST OF THE SUNSHINE HAS BEEN. WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE OK PNHDL WILL ALSO HELP TO FOCUS STORMS UP THERE AS WELL. RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS MOISTURE SLOWLY DECREASES AT THE SFC AND ALOFT WITH RIDGE BUILDING BACK EAST. ONLY FLY IN THE OINTMENT WILL BE A WEAK CIRCULATION OVER CNTRL TX THAT BOTH THE NAM AND GFS HAVE MOVING TOWARDS THE REGION. THIS DOES WEAKEN WITH TIME SO HAVE LEFT FCST DRY FOR SAT/SAT NITE BUT WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS FEATURE IN CASE CHANCES NEED TO BE BUMPED UP. HEADING INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK IT APPEARS THAT HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE REGION ONCE AGAIN. TEMPS WILL BE THE WARMEST MON AND TUE WHEN RIDGE IS THE STRONGEST. SFC TROF WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE TX/NM BORDER WHICH WILL AID IN SWINGING SFC WINDS TO THE SW HELPING TO DRY US OUT AND WARM THINGS UP. WARMEST TEMPS APPEAR TO BE OVER THE NE TX AND OK PNHDLS ONCE AGAIN WHERE 100- 105 DEG RANGE WILL LIKELY BE SEEN. BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF DO SHOW INDICATIONS THAT A FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION MID TO LATE NEXT WEEK WHICH WILL HELP BRING TEMPS BACK DOWN AND INCREASE RAIN CHANCES SOME. THERE ARE MAJOR DIFFERENCES WITH THE TIMING AND STRENGTH OF THE FRONT HOWEVER. GFS APPEARS TO BE SUFFERING FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK WHICH PUSHES THE FRONT THROUGH FASTER THAN THE ECMWF AND COOLS TEMPS INTO THE 70S. THE ECMWF HAS BEEN MORE CONSISTENT IN BRINGING IN FRONT SOMETIME WEDNESDAY. OVERALL...LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK WILL BE COOLER WITH ANOTHER CHANCE FOR PRECIP. FCSTID = JORDAN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMARILLO TX 68 94 68 95 / 30 10 10 10 BEAVER OK 70 98 69 101 / 30 10 10 10 BOISE CITY OK 66 94 65 95 / 30 10 10 10 BORGER TX 71 97 73 97 / 30 10 10 10 BOYS RANCH TX 69 97 70 98 / 30 10 10 10 CANYON TX 68 95 68 95 / 30 10 10 10 CLARENDON TX 70 96 69 98 / 30 10 10 10 DALHART TX 65 94 64 97 / 30 10 10 10 GUYMON OK 69 99 70 100 / 30 10 10 10 HEREFORD TX 68 93 67 95 / 30 10 10 10 LIPSCOMB TX 70 96 72 98 / 30 10 10 10 PAMPA TX 69 94 70 95 / 30 10 10 10 SHAMROCK TX 70 97 71 98 / 30 10 10 10 WELLINGTON TX 72 97 71 99 / 30 10 10 10 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. && 03/17
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-291100- 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 FRI JUL 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE GUSTY WINDS. IN ADDITION...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS AND ABUNDANT ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL LEAD TO THE THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. COCKRELL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 432 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 TXZ012-016-017-282200- DEAF SMITH TX-POTTER TX-RANDALL TX- 432 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEASTERN DEAF SMITH...SOUTHWESTERN POTTER AND NORTHWESTERN RANDALL COUNTIES... AT 432 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUSHLAND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN BUSHLAND AND VEGA WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. HEAVY RAIN AND CROSS WINDS WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AS THE STORM MOVES ACROSS THE INTERSTATE. JJB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 554 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 TXZ014-019-282345- DONLEY TX-GRAY TX- 554 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEASTERN DONLEY AND SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTIES... AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF MCLEAN MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. ALSO...THIS STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MCLEAN AND ALANREED WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. STRONG CROSS WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN LIMITING VISIBILITY TO AROUND 1 MILE WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AS THE STORM MOVES ACROSS THE INTERSTATE. JJB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 709 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 TXZ001-006-290045- DALLAM TX-HARTLEY TX- 709 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN DALLAM AND HARTLEY COUNTIES... AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF DALHART MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. SMALL HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. HOURLY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF NEAR 1 INCH WILL OCCUR AND WILL COMBINE WITH GUSTY WINDS TO CREATE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY ALONG US HIGHWAYS 54 AND 87. JJB
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:39 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The tornado occurred over open country and the path length and path width were estimated.
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