Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 6:43 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1987, 6:43 PM MDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1987, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 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, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 29, 4:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 545 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 285 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EXCEPT DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...AND PARMER COUNTIES OF THE WEST PANHANDLE...AND CIMARRON COUNTY OF THE WEST OKLKAHOMA PANHANDLE... AT 533 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDER STORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR GAGE OKLAHOMA...SOUTHWEST ACROSS CANADIAN AND PAMPA TEXAS TO JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO...THEN SOUTH TO CANYON. STRONGEST PORTION OF THE LINE WAS BETWEEN PAMPA AND CANADIAN...AND JUST SOUTH OF CANYON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF THIS LINE CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS... AND POSSIBLE HAIL DURING ITS PASSAGE. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFTEY IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:42 PM MDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 740 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 285 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EXCEPT DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...AND PARMER COUNTIES OF THE WEST PANHANDLE...AND CIMARRON COUNTY OF THE WEST OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR TEXAS AND BEAVER COUNTIES OF THE OKLAHOMA... AT 730 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE BETWEEN SHAMROCK AND CANADIAN. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST EAST OF WHEELER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO BETWEEN TUCUMCARI AND CLAYTON. STORNGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF TUCUMCARI...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFTEY IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO RADIO..TV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Curry | 5 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.