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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 7, 1986Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1986, 6:54 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1986, 6:54 PM MDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1986, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

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 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1125 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 00:00Z on 1986-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
1125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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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.