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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 1, 1986, 7:56 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 1986, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collingsworth 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1673 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLBB 020056 TORAMA TXC087-020200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX ISSUED BY LUBBOCK TX 756 PM CDT WED OCT 1 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...COLLINGSWORTH AT 750PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT WELLINGTON TEXAS. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED EANRLIER IN MEMPHIS WITH NO DAMAGE REPORTED. MOVEMENT OF THE TORNADO WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY !
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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.