Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1988, 3:26 PM CDT for Hansford County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1988, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1988, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hansford County, TX, Ochiltree 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 092027
SVRAMA
TXC195-357-092130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
326 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...HANSFORD...WESTERN OCHILTREE
AT 320 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN
HANSFORD COUNTY...NEAR HITCHLAND. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.
LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. DUE TO
ITS SLOW MOVEMENT...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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 9, 2:49 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 249 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE... AT 228 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE INTO THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTION OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTH- EAST CORNER OF TEXAS COUNTY AND EASTERN BEAVER COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS...SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EXTREME WESTERN OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF LITTLEFIELD TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF ALL PRECIPITATION WAS EAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND FLOODING OF HIGHWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.