A cold front moved through the southern Texas Panhandle during the day of the 27th. Thunderstorms developed along the cold front as it moved into Northwest Texas.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
A cold front moved through the southern Texas Panhandle during the day of the 27th. Thunderstorms developed along the cold front as it moved into Northwest Texas. These thunderstorms overran the front and began to decay over the southwestern Texas Panhandle. As the storms decayed they produced an outflow gust which produced damaged near Hereford (Deaf Smith County). Once these storms dissipated, no further severe report was observed.
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 27, 6:10 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 710 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...EXPECT SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. IT REMAINS DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT WHETHER OR NOT ANY SPECIFIC TERMINAL SITE WILL BE IMPACTED AND WHEN...SO HAVE OPTED TO RETAIN VCTS AT KDHT FOR THE FIRST FEW HOURS AND OMIT MENTION OF TSTMS AT KGUY AND KAMA AT THIS TIME BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS. AFTER A LULL IN PRECIPITATION MONDAY MORNING...EXPECT MORE SHOWERS AND TSTMS TO BEGIN FORMING LATER MONDAY AFTERNOON. DUE TO LOW CONFIDENCE IN WHETHER OR NOT ANY TAF SITES WILL BE IMPACTED BY TSTMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...AMENDMENTS TO THE CURERNT FCST MAY BECOME NECESSARY AS THE NIGHT UNFOLDS. ANDRADE && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 432 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014/ SHORT TERM... THE LONG ANTICIPATED PATTERN CHANGE HAS STARTED TO TAKE SHAPE TODAY AS THE UPPER RIDGE SHIFTED SLIGHTLY WESTWARD IN RESPONSE TO A DEEPENING TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN CONUS. THIS PATTERN WILL BE FURTHER AMPLIFIED AS A STRONG UPPER LOW OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST CONTINUES TO DIG TO THE SOUTHEAST...FURTHER DEEPENING THIS TROUGH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WHILE THIS CONVECTION WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLED OVER THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THIS EVENING. HIGH- RES MODELS GENERALLY INDICATE STORMS INITIATING ALONG THE FRONT LATE THIS EVENING WITH THE CONVECTION PROPAGATING OFF THE HIGHER TERRAIN OUT WEST AND MERGING WITH THE CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONT. TODAYS 12Z KAMA SOUNDING IS ALREADY INDICATING THE INCREASE OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AND THE MOIST POST-FRONTAL UPSLOPE FLOW WILL PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL SURGE OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...FURTHER PRIMING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. GIVEN THIS...HAVE GONE AND INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE AREA WITH THE BEST CHANCES OVER THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR AROUND 20 KTS HOWEVER MODERATE INSTABILITY CAN SUPPORT A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS...ALTHOUGH THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MONDAY AS THE FRONT SLIDES FURTHER SOUTH...TOWARD THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS. THIS MAY SHIFT THE AXIS OF HEAVY RAINFALL SOUTH OF THE AREA...BUT THE CONTINUED FETCH OF MONSOONAL AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND PROGGED INSTABILITY OF AROUND 1000 J/KG WILL SUPPORT THE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A 25-30 KT LOW LEVEL JET MONDAY NIGHT WILL HELP SUSTAIN AND INCREASE CONVECTION LATE MONDAY NIGHT WHILE STORMS MOVE OFF THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN NEW MEXICO. ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER AND CONTINUED UPSLOPE LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL LEAD TO A MUCH COOLER DAY WHERE HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S ARE EXPECTED AREA WIDE. LONG TERM... HAVE NOT MADE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE FORECAST TUESDAY ON AS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS REMAINS IN BETWEEN THE WESTERN CONUS RIDGE AND TROUGHING OVER THE EASTERN U.S. THUS EXPECT INTERMITTENT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE PERIOD. SEVERAL UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL MOVE ALONG THE EASTERN PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE...WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE WAVES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS UPPER WAVE WILL FOCUS THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE AMA CWA AS A COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL FORM IN THIS AREA BEFORE MOVING INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS UPPER WAVE WILL ALSO PUSH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH THE AREA...ALSO SERVING AS A FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER CANNOT BE RULED OUT...FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED FOR MUCH OF THE AREA. MAY SEE A LULL IN STORMS BY FRIDAY EVENING ALTHOUGH WITH THE AREA REMAINING UNDER NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE WESTERN ZONES DURING THE DAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS INDICATE THE UPPER FLOW WILL VEER TO A MORE NORTHERLY DIRECTION BY SUNDAY WHICH WOULD LEAD TO DIMINISHING PRECIP CHANCES. HOWEVER THE GFS AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE ECMWF INDICATES STORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. HAVE KEPT THE FORECAST DRY BEYOND FRIDAY FOR NOW BUT THIS WILL BE SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS THIS PERIOD GETS CLOSER IN TIME. HIGH TEMPS THROUGH THE WEEK WILL BE BELOW NORMAL GIVEN THE CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER AND RAIN CHANCES WITH READINGS IN THE 80S. EVEN COOLER WEATHER IS EXPECTED THURSDAY AS THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT WEDNESDAY WILL KNOCK HIGHS BACK INTO THE 70S. CLK && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-281100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 315 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED HOWEVER A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WHERE HAIL UP TO SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH COULD LEAD TO SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MOST STORMS WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS DURING THIS TIME PERIOD...HOWEVER A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH MAY PRODUCE SOME FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CLK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 636 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 OKZ001-TXZ001-280015- CIMARRON OK-DALLAM TX- 636 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DALLAM AND SOUTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF TEXLINE...OR 15 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT LESS THAN MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FELT... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3669 10297 3669 10273 3640 10274 3639 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 107DEG 5KT 3647 10291 ANDRADE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 657 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 OKZ001-TXZ001-280015- CIMARRON OK-DALLAM TX- 657 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DALLAM AND SOUTHWESTERN CIMARRON COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT... AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF TEXLINE...OR 15 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FELT... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3669 10297 3669 10273 3640 10274 3639 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 107DEG 5KT 3647 10291 ANDRADE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 719 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 TXZ001-280100- DALLAM TX- 719 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DALLAM COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF TEXLINE...OR 15 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TEXLINE... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3650 10303 3648 10275 3625 10285 3617 10304 TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 037DEG 11KT 3637 10294 ANDRADE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 722 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 TXZ006-011-280100- HARTLEY TX-OLDHAM TX- 722 PM CDT SUN JUL 27 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN OLDHAM AND SOUTHWESTERN HARTLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NARA VISA...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN OLDHAM AND SOUTHWESTERN HARTLEY COUNTIES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3534 10304 3568 10304 3569 10260 3540 10274 TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 099DEG 16KT 3553 10288 ANDRADE
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:18 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Decaying thunderstorms moved into the southwestern Texas Panhandle during the late evening hours of the 27th. This outflow from these decaying thunderstorms blew down three utility poles and heavily damaged two tin out buildings.
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