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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 22, 1987Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 1987, 6:28 PM CST for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 1987, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
Expired
Mar 22, 1987, 7:30 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lipscomb 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 603 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBB 230028
TORAMA
TXC295-230130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
ISSUED BY LUBBOCK TX
628 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

PANHANDLE OF TEXAS...LIPSCOMB

AT 620 PM CST THE LIPSCOMB COUNTY SHERIFF`S DEPARTMENT
REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN LIPSaCOMB COUNTY ABOUT
15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOLLETT. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE IMMEDIATE COVER.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 22, 2:27 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
 228 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 40 IN EFFECT FROM 230 PM CST
UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR THE GRAY...HEMPHILL...LIPSCOMB...OCHILTREE...
ROBERTS...AND WHEELER COUNTIES OF THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...
AND BEAVER COUNTY OF THE EAST OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...

AT 225 PM CST AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDER
STORMS DEVELOPING IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE BETWEEN PERRYTON
TEXAS AND GUYMON OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:49 PM CST, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
545 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 41 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CST FOR ARMSTRONG..
CHILDRESS..COLLINGSWORTH..DONLEY..GRAY..HALL AND WHEELER OF THE
SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE.
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 40 IN UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR
GRAY...HEMPHILL...LIPSCOMB...OCHILTREE...
ROBERTS...AND WHEELER COUNTIES OF THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...
AND BEAVER COUNTY OF THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...

AT 540 PM CST...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NORTH OF
LIPSCOMB TO SOUTH OF CANADIAN IN THE NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE.
ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM GUYMON OKLAHOMA4 TO
DALHART TEXAS AND TO NORTHEAST OF TUCUMCARI NEW MEXICO.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 6:13 PM CSTTornado WarningAMALipscomb62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1987Every tornado warning in 1987Tornadoes 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.