Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 15, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1989, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hartley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hartley, 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 43 min |
| Aug 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Dallam | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry, Roosevelt | 57 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.