Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds across the central Texas Panhandle during the evening hours. No injuries were reported.
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Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds across the central Texas Panhandle during the evening hours. 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 Jun 17, 6:13 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 713 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 .UPDATE... HAVE ISSUED UPDATE TO GRAPHICAL AND TEXT FCSTS. HAVE INCREASED POPS THIS EVE ACROSS CENTRAL ZONES ALONG AXIS OF HIGHER INSTBY. HAVE ALSO CALLED FOR AREAL QUALIFIERS IN CENTRAL AND S-CENTRAL ZONES. HAVE ALSO INCREASED QPF AMOUNTS THIS EVE. NO CHANGES TO LATER PERIODS. COCKRELL && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 625 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010/ AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...CONVECTION IS BEGINNING TO APPROACH KAMA...EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO ONLY CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 3 HOURS UNTIL DIURNAL HEATING WANES. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITH VERY DRY SOUTHWESTERLY LOW LEVEL DOWNSLOPING FLOW. SJOHNSON PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 246 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010/ DISCUSSION... INSTABILITY AXIS LIES SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST FROM THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE TO THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...THERE STILL REMAINS THE QUESTION ON WHETHER OR NOT THE CAP IS GOING TO HOLD. FOR NOW HAVE RE-ORIENTED THE POPS TO COVER MORE OF THE EASTERN CWA FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS TONIGHT. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY BUILD WESTWARD TOWARD THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. BEFORE THIS HAPPENS HOWEVER...DAILY CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE CWA NEAR THE SURFACE TROUGH AND BEST INSTABILITY. WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY FROM SUNDAY THROUGH THE REST OF THE FORECAST AS IT LOOKS LIKE THE UPPER HIGH WILL BE PRETTY MUCH OVERHEAD. WE CERTAINLY CAN NOT RULE OUT A FEW ROGUE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS TIMEFRAME...BUT TO TRY TO TIME THE EXACT DAY THIS FAR OUT IS FUTILE. FIRE WEATHER... LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL GET DOWN INTO THE 15 TO 20 PERCENT RANGE MOST DAYS ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN PANHANDLES AND WINDS WILL BE UP AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR DURING THE AFTERNOON. && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 16/03
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-181100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 315 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS MOST OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM GUYMON TO DALHART. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...CAUTION IS ADVISED ON AREA LAKES THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BE STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SINCE THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LIMITED...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. NUTTALL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 657 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 TXZ012-013-017-180030- POTTER TX-CARSON TX-RANDALL TX- 657 PM CDT THU JUN 17 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR RANDALL...CARSON AND POTTER COUNTIES. AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMARILLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ONE HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR OTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. SJOHNSON
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:23 UTC.
4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tractor trailer rig was blown over by the strong thunderstorm wind gust at the intersection of St. Francis Avenue and Farm to Market Road 683. No injuries were reported.
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