Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1989, 5:29 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 8, 1989, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collingsworth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Collingsworth, 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 532 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 082231
SVRAMA
TXC087-082315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
529 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...EASTERN COLLINGSWORTH
AT 527 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN
COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY..10 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF WELLINGTON. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER ALONG WITH
GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES EASTWARD AT 20 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAITL...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
Local storm report, Sep 8, 4:30 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX
427 PM CDT FRI SEP 08 1989
STORM REPORT FOR AFTERNOON OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1989
1440 CST..NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR HOWARDWICK..NORTH OF CLARENDON IN NORTHERN
DONLEY COUNTY..RPTD BY DONLEY SO
1450 CST..WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AT GREENBELT LAKE MARINA..NEAR HOWARDWICK
..RPTD BY MARINA PERSONNEL
WSO..AMA
SCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 62 min |
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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.