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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 24, 1987Hall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1987, 7:51 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1987, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1987, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hall 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 121 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 1987-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 782 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 1987-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
782 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 24, 7:43 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
735 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1987

AT 730 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED
FROM THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...INTO THE NORTH AND CENTRAL
TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN A LINE FROM
SOUTHEAST OF HEREFORD...THROUGH THE CITY OF AMARILLO TO JUST NORTHWEST
OF PAMPA.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND PEA SIZE
HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER...
STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STAIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Randall46 min
May 24, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABriscoe29 min
May 24, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABriscoe34 min
May 25, 12:03 AM CDTTornado WarningAMAChildress27 min
May 25, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro10 min
May 25, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford50 min
May 25, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford40 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong67 min
May 25, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro, Randall, Swisher61 min
May 25, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.