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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1989, 9:07 PM CDT for Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1989, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oldham 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 15, 3:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
345 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989
...A SEVERRE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR QUAY COUNTY OF
EAST NEW MEXICO UNTIL 330 MDT...
AT 330 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN QUAY
COUNTY OF EAST NEW MEXICO...AND IN HALE...LYNN...AND GARZA COUNTIES
OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORM IN SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY WAS JUST SOUTH
OF RAGLAND AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF QUAY. THIS STORM EARLIER PRODUCED GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL OVER SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY. THE SOUTH PLAINS SEVERE
STORMS WERE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PLAINVIEW. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS...AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY
LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN..AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
THE STORMS IN NEW MEXICO WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND
THOSE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE
IMMEDIATELY TO PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.
.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNIN=GS.
SEASpecial weather statement, May 15, 3:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY ...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
345 PM CDT MON MAY 15 1989
...A SEVERRE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR QUAY COUNTY OF
EAST NEW MEXICO UNTIL 330 MDT...
AT 330 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN QUAY
COUNTY OF EAST NEW MEXICO...AND IN HALE...LYNN...AND GARZA COUNTIES
OF THE SOUTH PLAINS. THE STORM IN SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY WAS JUST SOUTH
OF RAGLAND AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF QUAY. THIS STORM EARLIER PRODUCED GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL OVER SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY. THE SOUTH PLAINS SEVERE
STORMS WERE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PLAINVIEW. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS...AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY
LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN..AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
THE STORMS IN NEW MEXICO WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND
THOSE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
PERSONS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE
IMMEDIATELY TO PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.
.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATION FO>R FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
SEAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Sherman | 61 min |
| May 15, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 55 min |
| May 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 46 min |
| May 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 57 min |
| May 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 45 min |
| May 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 62 min |
| May 15, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore, Potter | 66 min |
| May 15, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 57 min |
| May 16, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 67 min |
| May 16, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 54 min |
| May 16, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 53 min |
| May 16, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 45 min |
| May 16, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 54 min |
| May 16, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 49 min |
| May 16, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 55 min |
| May 16, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 57 min |
| May 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 62 min |
| May 16, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 66 min |
| May 16, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 59 min |
| May 16, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 63 min |
| May 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 61 min |
| May 16, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 43 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 56 min |
| May 16, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 64 min |
| May 16, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Quay | 32 min |
| May 16, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Quay | 57 min |
| May 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 64 min |
| May 16, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.