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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 14, 1986Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 12:11 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1986, 12:11 PM CDT (17:11 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1986, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX

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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1686 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 11:46 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
 1145AM CDT WED MAY 14 1986

TORNADO WATCH 160 IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE EAST CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND MUCH OF WESTER OKLAHOMA INCLUDING
THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.

AT 1145AM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER
THE EASTERN HALVES OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth67 min
May 14, 2:02 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADallam58 min
May 14, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARandall34 min
May 14, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong67 min
May 14, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley, Wheeler63 min
May 14, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Hall57 min
May 14, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress, Hall64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.