Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 1987, 8:10 PM CST for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1987, 8:10 PM CST (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1987, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beaver County, OK
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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOKC 230213 TORAMA OKC007-230300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX ISSUED BY OKLAHOMA CITY OK 810 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...BEAVER AT 755 PM THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 4 MILES NORTH OF BOOKER TX NEAR THE OKLAHOMA..TEXAS STATE LINE. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 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, 5 hours 43 minutes 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, 2 hours 21 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.
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.