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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 6, 1989Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1989, 9:23 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 6, 1989, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1989, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lipscomb 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 6, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Lipscomb, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 070225
TORAMA
TXC295-070315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
923 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
          ...LIPSCOMB
 
AT 818 PM CDT THE LIPSCOMB SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE
GROUND 8 AND 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF LIPSCOMP. ALSO REPORTED IN THE SAME
AREA WAS BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL HAIL.
 
AMARILLO RADAR SHOWS A HOOK ECHO IN THIS SAME AREA.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	57 min
Jun 6, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	63 min
Jun 6, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	67 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.