If you are looking for fresh snow by Christmas morning or are curious about potential travel disruptions, the best chances for at least 1" of new snowfall early this week exist across the mountainous West, Great Lakes, and Northeast. Otherwise, temperatures this last full week of December will average above normal for much of the lower 48 states. Read More >
Overview
This "northwest flow" event (i.e. flow aloft was from the northwest) lead to a number of damaged houses, outbuildings, power poles, trees and other vegetation due to strong outflow winds and two separate microbursts originating from the same supercell thunderstorm. This supercell developed just east of Dumas, Texas and moved south through Amarillo and Canyon. Initially the supercell produced very large hail to the size of baseballs north of Amarillo, and would drop 2 inch hail in Amarillo. The storm produced its first microburst as it started becoming outflow dominant in southern Amarillo where some power poles were damaged. The second more powerful microburst occurred just south of Amarillo and would lead to some considerable damage with winds up to 90 mph estimated based on damage between Amarillo and Canyon along and near county road 1541. During this time, the storm also dumped 2 to 6 inches of mostly dime size hail (although the were some reports of hail up to the size of golf balls as well) along its path. Another storm would become severe briefly near Spearman producing ping-pong ball size hail, but dissipated within an hour or so.
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| Looking north from 3 east of Canyon around 8:45 PM CDT by Aaron Ward | Radar reflectivity and base velocity of the storm at 8:53 PM CDT. | Looking north from 3 east of Canyon around 8:55 PM CDT by Aaron Ward |
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| Storm Survey: Badly damaged outbuilding west of FM 1541. | Storm Survey: Wind damage to home near S. Georgia St. and W McAfee Rd. | Storm Survey: Wind damage to home near S. Georgia St. and W McAfee Rd. | Storm Survey: Flipped mobile home near FM 1541 and Plantation Rd. |
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| Dime size hail around 2-3 inches deep 3 east of Canyon by Aaron Ward | Dime size hail around 2-3 inches deep 3 east of Canyon by Aaron Ward | Caption | Caption |
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Storm Reports (coming soon)
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 123 AM CDT SAT JUN 10 2017 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0708 PM HAIL 8 E FOUR WAY 35.69N 101.82W 06/08/2017 E2.75 INCH MOORE TX TRAINED SPOTTER 0710 PM HAIL 9 SE DUMAS 35.78N 101.86W 06/08/2017 M1.50 INCH MOORE TX NWS EMPLOYEE 0726 PM HAIL 4 SE GRUVER 36.22N 101.36W 06/08/2017 E1.50 INCH HANSFORD TX PUBLIC 0756 PM TSTM WND GST 14 N AMARILLO 35.41N 101.82W 06/08/2017 M64 MPH POTTER TX BROADCAST MEDIA 0819 PM TSTM WND GST 6 ENE AMARILLO 35.22N 101.72W 06/08/2017 M59 MPH POTTER TX ASOS 0831 PM HAIL 8 N AMARILLO 35.32N 101.83W 06/08/2017 M1.00 INCH POTTER TX TRAINED SPOTTER GIVENS AVE. AND HWY 87 0832 PM HAIL 5 N AMARILLO 35.27N 101.83W 06/08/2017 E1.00 INCH POTTER TX PUBLIC 0835 PM HAIL 7 N AMARILLO 35.30N 101.82W 06/08/2017 E2.00 INCH POTTER TX TRAINED SPOTTER 0835 PM HAIL 1 NE AMARILLO 35.21N 101.81W 06/08/2017 E1.75 INCH POTTER TX NWS EMPLOYEE 9TH AND ROSS 0837 PM HAIL 2 NNE AMARILLO 35.23N 101.81W 06/08/2017 M1.00 INCH POTTER TX TRAINED SPOTTER MARTIN ROAD LAKE 0837 PM HAIL 4 NNE AMARILLO 35.26N 101.79W 06/08/2017 M1.75 INCH POTTER TX AMATEUR RADIO 24TH AND GRAND ST 0840 PM HAIL 1 W AMARILLO 35.20N 101.83W 06/08/2017 E1.25 INCH POTTER TX BROADCAST MEDIA QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 0840 PM TSTM WND GST 3 SSE AMARILLO 35.16N 101.80W 06/08/2017 E70 MPH RANDALL TX NWS STORM SURVEY A BRIEF MICROBURST OCCURRED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF AMARILLO. 0841 PM HAIL 2 SW AMARILLO 35.18N 101.84W 06/08/2017 M1.50 INCH RANDALL TX TRAINED SPOTTER WASHINGTON AND I27 0843 PM HAIL 4 SSW AMARILLO 35.14N 101.86W 06/08/2017 M1.00 INCH RANDALL TX NWS EMPLOYEE 0843 PM TSTM WND GST 4 SSW AMARILLO 35.14N 101.86W 06/08/2017 E60 MPH RANDALL TX NWS EMPLOYEE 0846 PM HAIL 3 SSW AMARILLO 35.16N 101.84W 06/08/2017 M1.75 INCH RANDALL TX TRAINED SPOTTER 58TH AND WASHINGTON 0847 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 N TIMBERCREEK CANYON 35.11N 101.82W 06/08/2017 RANDALL TX NWS STORM SURVEY A MICROBURST ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAUSED DAMAGE TO A NUMBER OF TREES...POWER POLES...INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS...AND RESIDENTIAL HOMES IN PORTIONS OF NORTHERN RANDALL COUNTY. THE WORST DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED NEAR SOUTH GEORGIA STREET AND WEST MCAFEE ROAD WHERE A WELL BUILT HOUSE HAD A PATIO AWNING LIFTED OVER THE HOUSE AND LANDED ON THE GARAGE. THE DAMAGE PATH ASSOCIATED WITH THE MICROBURST HAD A PATH LENGTH OF 8.3 MILES...A MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH OF 2.0 MILES...AND ENDED AROUND 912 PM CDT 0848 PM HAIL 5 S AMARILLO 35.13N 101.82W 06/08/2017 E1.00 INCH RANDALL TX PUBLIC 0848 PM TSTM WND GST 2 NNW LAKE TANGLEWOOD 35.08N 101.80W 06/08/2017 M75 MPH RANDALL TX PUBLIC LATE REPORT. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR. 0849 PM HAIL AMARILLO 35.20N 101.82W 06/08/2017 E1.25 INCH POTTER TX TRAINED SPOTTER QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED. 0850 PM TSTM WND GST 4 NNW LAKE TANGLEWOOD 35.11N 101.80W 06/08/2017 M67 MPH RANDALL TX MESONET 0855 PM TSTM WND GST 4 NNW LAKE TANGLEWOOD 35.11N 101.80W 06/08/2017 M70 MPH RANDALL TX MESONET 0859 PM HAIL 2 SW TIMBERCREEK CANYON 35.04N 101.85W 06/08/2017 M1.00 INCH RANDALL TX TRAINED SPOTTER 6 - 8 INCHES OF HAIL COVERING BOTH SIDES OF WASHINGTON JUST NORTH OR CAMP DON HARRINGTON 0900 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 WNW TIMBERCREEK CANYO 35.07N 101.85W 06/08/2017 RANDALL TX PUBLIC 1000 LB. BUILDING BLOWN OVER... PIECES OF METAL TORN OFF ROOF 0903 PM TSTM WND GST 2 N CANYON 35.02N 101.92W 06/08/2017 M66 MPH RANDALL TX BROADCAST MEDIA 0910 PM TSTM WND GST 3 E CANYON 34.98N 101.87W 06/08/2017 E70 MPH RANDALL TX NWS EMPLOYEE 0912 PM TSTM WND GST CANYON 34.98N 101.92W 06/08/2017 E60 MPH RANDALL TX TRAINED SPOTTER
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