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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1987, 1:21 AM CDT for Carson County, Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1987, 1:21 AM CDT (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1987, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carson County, TX, Gray 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 3198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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, Jul 1, 7:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 737 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 293 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE WEST AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 295 IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE EAST TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. AT 725 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED VERY STRONG THUNDER STORMS IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE...ONE JUST SOUTHEAST OF SILVERTON...ANOTHER 25 MILES SOUTH OF CLAUDE...AND ANOTHER JUST EAST OF BORGER. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER LESS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED OVER THE NORTH TEXAS PANHANDLE BETWEEN PERRYTON AND DALHART...AND NEAR THE CLAYTON NEW MEXICO AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THE HEAVIER STORMS. SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE.
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 11:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 59 min |
| Jul 1, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro, Parmer | 59 min |
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.