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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 2, 1986Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1986, 7:44 PM CST for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 2, 1986, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 1986, 8:45 PM CST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Texas County, OK

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.