Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1987, 3:58 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1987, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1987, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Parmer 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 222058 SVRAMA TXC369-117-222200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 358 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUETD A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...NORTHERN PARMER AND WESTERN DEAF SMITH
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 22, 11:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1139AM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 1130 AM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...EXTENDING FROM NEAR TURKEY TEXAS...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PLAINVIEW. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BRISCOE AND HALL COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. OCCASIONAL FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. OTHER LESS INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND THE EAST OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE NOTED IN EAST NEW MEXICO... NEAR TUCUMCARI.
Special weather statement, May 22, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1242PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 1231 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CHILDRESS TEXAS...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR LUBBOCK. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY AS THE LINE MOVES NORTHEAST...THROUGHT CHILDRESS AND HALL COUNTIES...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. ELSEWHERE...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EXTENDED INTO WEST OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED SHOWERS A)ND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS REMAINED IN THE WEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EXTENDED WEST TO NEAR TUCUMCARI NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 22, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 245 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 ...MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED JUST NORTH OF CLOVIS NEW MEXICO AT 130 PM MDT... AT 232 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF CLOVIS NEW MEXICO...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME LOCALLY VERY HEAVY ...CONTINUED OVER THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EXTENDED INTO WEST OKLAHOMA...THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS...AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS EAST OF LUBBOCK TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.