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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1989, 8:37 PM CDT for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
- Aug 6, 1989, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1989, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gray 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Gray, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1088 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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, Aug 6, 4:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 423 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 1989 ...THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE WITH SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON... AT 420 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH RANDALL COUNTY. THE STORM WAS JUST EAST OF BUFFALO LAKE OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF CANYON. THIS STORM PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL JUST BEFORE 4PM WHEN IT WAS BETWEEN CANYON AND AMARILLO. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES. TWG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 65 min |
| Aug 6, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 68 min |
| Aug 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Randall | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 115 min |
| Aug 6, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro, Parmer, Swisher | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Aug 6, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hall | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.