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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 11, 1989Carson County, Gray County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1989, 10:56 PM CDT for Carson County, Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1989, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1989, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Carson County, TX, Gray 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 1774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

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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, Jun 11, 7:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

TTAASP KAMA 120031
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
735 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR THE TEXAS
  AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...AND THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS...

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DALLAM COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 725 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND NORTHEAST
NEW MEXICO.  THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOISE CITY
IN THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND IN THE VICINITY OF DALHART OF THE
NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT BRIEF PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND...AND SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

TTAASP KAMA 120242
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
940 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 1989

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR THE TEXAS
  AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...

AT 934 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA...AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS.  THE
HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN THE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE...BETWEEN
BUSLAND AND THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE...5 MILES EAST OF STINNETT...AND
IN THE VICINITY OF LIBERAL KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT BRIEF PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND...AND SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	67 min
Jun 12, 12:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Donley	28 min
Jun 12, 12:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hall	57 min
Jun 12, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe	58 min
Jun 12, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Childress	56 min
Jun 12, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	69 min
Jun 12, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Briscoe	61 min
Jun 12, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hall	69 min
Jun 12, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	64 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	59 min
Jun 12, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	66 min
Jun 12, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	68 min
Jun 12, 6:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Wheeler	99 min
Jun 12, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	59 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Potter	40 min
Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	61 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.