Isolated thunderstorms developed across the Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours of Sunday May 24th. The unstable atmosphere allowed for some of the thunderstorms to become severe.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Isolated thunderstorms developed across the Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours of Sunday May 24th. The unstable atmosphere allowed for some of the thunderstorms to become severe.
One thunderstorm in far northwest Beaver County produced half dollar size hail.
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 May 24, 5:12 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 612 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015 .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...ISOLD TSTMS MAY DEVELOP JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN THE TX AND OK PNHDLS THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...DUE TO THE EXPECTED ISOLD NATURE SHOULD ANY STORMS DEVELOP THIS EVENING...HAVE DECIDED TO OMIT MENTION OF THIS WEATHER ELEMENT FOR THIS TAF CYCLE. ISOLD TSTMS MAY ALSO FORM LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND WILL ALSO LEAVE OUT OF THIS FCST FOR THE SAME REASON MENTIONED ABOVE. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED AT ALL TERMINAL SITES THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. ANDRADE && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 413 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015/ DISCUSSION... DRYLINE HAS EDGED INTO THE FAR WESTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA...AND IS CURRENTLY POSITIONED NEAR A LINE FROM KENTON TO HEREFORD. DEEP AND RICH MOISTURE REMAINS IN PLACE EAST OF THE DRYLINE...WITH INSTABILITY MAXIMIZED ALONG A NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST CORRIDOR FROM SOUTHWEST KANSAS TO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. EXPECT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...WITH UPPER SUPPORT FROM SHORTWAVE TROF CURRENTLY OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. ENOUGH SHEAR EXISTS FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL EXPECTED TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. NO CHANGES OF SIGNIFICANCE HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE EARLIER FORECAST. NO POPS ABOVE 20 PERCENT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HIGHER POPS KEPT FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AS NEXT LONGWAVE TROF SETS UP OVER WESTERN CONUS AND THEN TRAVERSES PANHANDLES. COCKRELL && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 354 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-251115- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 354 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE PANHANDLES THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. NO ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS ANTICIPATED THIS EVENING...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WHICH COULD AGGRAVATE FLOODING PROBLEMS ON A LOCALIZED BASIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...ALTHOUGH ORGANIZED OR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. COCKRELL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 801 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015 OKZ002-003-250145- BEAVER OK-TEXAS OK- 801 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN BEAVER AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM CDT... AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF TYRONE...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 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... TURPIN... TYRONE... BAKER... 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 3700 10081 3683 10087 3685 10105 3700 10110 TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 189DEG 18KT 3695 10097 ANDRADE
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:05 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A storm chaser reported half dollar size hail 7 miles north of Turpin in rural northwestern Beaver County.
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