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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 30, 1988Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1988, 8:03 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1988, 8:03 PM MDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1988, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2140 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1988-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
6.8

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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 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 30, 6:54 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
750 PM CDT MON MAY 30 1988

AT 740 PM CDT ....A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOISE CITY OKLAHOMA TO 20 MILES WEST OF
DALHART TEXAS AND FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TUCUMCARI NEW MEXICO
TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIMMITT TEXAS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAuVY RAIN..DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING STRIKES AND DAMAGING WINDS.

KEEP TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro64 min
May 30, 8:47 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACastro, Parmer28 min
May 30, 8:53 PM MDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith37 min
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMADeaf Smith, Moore, Oldham2 hr
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAParmer2 hr
May 31, 2:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson2 hr
May 31, 4:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAPotter, Randall2 hr
May 31, 4:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro2 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts4 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro, Randall4 hr
May 31, 6:46 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACarson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter4 hr
May 31, 12:18 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth57 min
May 30, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry64 min
May 30, 9:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMARoosevelt4 hr
May 30, 10:16 PM MDTTornado WarningAMARoosevelt29 min
May 31, 1:53 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt3 hr
May 31, 5:07 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt5 hr

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.