Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 1986, 8:01 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1986, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Armstrong 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1517 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 130101 TORAMA TXC011-130200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 801 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...ARMSTRONG AT 755 PM CDT TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH AND 4 MILES WEST OF CALUDE TEXAS. RADARa INDICATE LITTLE MOVEMENT TO THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 12, 6:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 635 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 1986 ...LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST TEXAAS PANHANDLE... AT 628 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDER STORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF SHAMROCK TEXAS..SOUTHWEST ACROSS CLARENDON TO NEAR MULESHOE ON THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS IN WHEELER COUNTY OF THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE ..NEAR THE CITY OF WHEELER. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE LINE WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT..SO SOME FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY OCCUR DURING THE EVENING. MOTORI*ST AND CAMPERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT.
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.