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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 7, 1986Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1986, 7:17 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1986, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Lipscomb, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 16.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 080017
TORAMA
TXC295-080115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
717 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...LIPSCOMB

AT 713PM THE TEXAS DPS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS NW OF GLAZIER
IN SOUTHWEST LIPSCOMB COUNTY. RADAR ALSO INDICATES A POSSIBLE
TORNADO. THIS STORM HAS REINTENSIFIED AND IS MOVING NORTH AT
15 MPH.

 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<.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hall	56 min
May 7, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	59 min
May 7, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Hall	68 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.