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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 3, 1989Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1989, 5:05 PM CDT for Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1989, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1989, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Randall 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-258 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 032205
TORAMA
TXC381-032230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
505 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
          ...SOUTHERN RANDALL
 
AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN AMARILLO DETECTED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HAPPY.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
TWG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith59 min
Jun 2, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro, Deaf Smith68 min
Jun 3, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher59 min
Jun 3, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong55 min
Jun 3, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher56 min
Jun 3, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley, Hall63 min
Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong67 min
Jun 3, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall55 min
Jun 3, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson65 min
Jun 3, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.