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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1987, 10:46 PM CDT for Castro County, Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1987, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1987, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Castro County, TX, Swisher 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAMA 300346
TORAMA
TXC069-437-300445-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1046 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...CASTRO...SWISHER
AT 1042PM CDT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SATETY REPORTED A TORNADO AT
HIGHWAY 86...7 MILES EAST OF DIMMITT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON #THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.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, May 29, 6:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
TTAASP KAMA 292350
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
645 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL
AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT ...
AT 635 PM CDT ...RADAR WAS DETECTING VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM
SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO LAKE TO NORTHEAST OF FRIONA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM WEST OF AMARILLO TO
NORTH OF AMARILLO WERE RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED.
AT 615 PM THE HEREFORD FIRE DEPT. WAS REPORTING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 MPH.
KEEP TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND T V$ STATION
FOR LATER STAEMENTS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 58 min |
| May 29, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro, Parmer | 61 min |
| May 29, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 64 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro | 60 min |
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro, Randall, Swisher | 59 min |
| May 29, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 68 min |
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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.