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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 12, 1989Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1989, 7:48 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 1989, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 8:38 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wheeler, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 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, Jun 12, 3:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

STORM REPORT..DELAYED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX
530 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989

DELAYED STORM REPORT FOR JUNE 11 AND MORNING OF JUNE 12, 1989

1)  1806-1915 CDT...SVR TSTM WRNG FOR SRN DALLAM CNTY

      1805 CDT..NICKEL SIZE HAIL..20 MI W OF DALHART..DALLUM SO
      1825 CDT..NICKEL SIZE NEAR TURKEY..REPORTED BY TURKEY PD

2)  2223-2330 CDT..SVR TSTM WRNG FOR NRN ARMSTRONG

      2221 CDT..NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT CLAUDE..RPTD BY SO
      2245 CDT..NICKEL SIZE HAIL ENDED AT CLAUDE..RPTD BY SO

3)  2256-2345 CDT...TORNADO WRNG FOR SRN CARSON/SRN GRAY CNTIES

      2255 CDT..SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 8 MI W OF GROOM (CARSON)
      2306 CDT..SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 5 MI W OF GROOM (CARSON)

4)  0002-0030 CDT..TORNADO WRNG FOR DONLEY CNTY

      0002 CDT..TORNADO RPTD NR CLARENDON BY DONLEY SO
      0007 CDT..TORNADO AT HOWARDWICK (8 MI N OF CLARENDON)
           30 MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED OR DESTROYED WITH ROOF DAMAGE
           TO SEVERAL HOMES (PERSONAL INSPECTION INDICATED 2 SMALL
           TORNADOES MAY HAVE OCCURRED)

5)  0018-0115 CDT..TORNADO WRNG FOR HALL

      0040 CDT..POWER LINES DOWNED..TORNADO IN HILLS NW OF
           MEMPHIS BY MEMPHIS PD

6)  0032-0130 CDT..SVR TSTM WRNG FOR BRISCOE CNTY

7)  0049-0145 CDT..TORNADO WRNG FOR CHILDRESS CNTY

      CHILDRESS WX OBSVR RPTED FUNNEL CLD FROM 0115 TO 0132 WITH WINDS
      OF 65 MPH

8)  0152-0300 CDT...SVR TSTM WRNG FOR ARMSTRONG

      0245 CDT..DIME SI=ZE HAIL 3 MI S OF CLAUDE..RPTD BY ARMSTRONG SO
           (TIME APPROX.)

9)  0259-0400 CDT..SVR TSTM SRN ARMSTRONG/NRN BRISCOE CNTIES

10) 0336-0445 CDT..SVR TSTM WRNG FOR HALL CNTY

WSO..AMA
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	69 min
Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Oldham, Potter	57 min
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	57 min
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Parmer	57 min
Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Potter	65 min
Jun 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	65 min
Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	62 min
Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	62 min
Jun 12, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	4 hr
Jun 12, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Swisher	61 min
Jun 12, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	69 min
Jun 12, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe, Hall	69 min
Jun 12, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Donley, Hall	45 min
Jun 12, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress, Collingsworth	55 min
Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe	69 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.