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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1989, 6:38 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1989, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAMA 122341
TORAMA
TXC205-130015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
638 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...EASTERN HARTLEY
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE DALHART POLICE DEPARTMENT 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CHANNING. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED COVERING THE GROUND.
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 SHELTERq IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.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 12, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 235 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 210 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BRISCOE...CASTRO...CHILDRESS...HALL...PRMER AND SWISHER COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM SATURDAY FOR HALL AND CHILDRESS COUNTY OF THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 225 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH HALL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...LESS INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN CHILDRESS AND LUBBOCK TEXAS. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ON THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE...SOUTHWEST OF DALHART. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD RAMAIN ALERT AND LISTSEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WAR@NINGS.
Special weather statement, May 12, 2:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 235 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 210 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BRISCOE...CASTRO...CHILDRESS...HALL...PRMER AND SWISHER COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH TEXAS PANHANDLE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM SATURDAY FOR HALL AND CHILDRESS COUNTIES OF THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 225 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH HALE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...LESS INTENSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN CHILDRESS AND LUBBOCK TEXAS. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ON THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE...SOUTHWEST OF DALHART. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD RAMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLJE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 12, 5:49 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 545 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 100 AM FOR THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 530 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLE OF TEXAS STRECTCHING INTO THE WESTERN PANHANDLE OF OKLAHOMA. THE THUNDER STORMS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY OVER THE PAST HOUR..HOWEVER GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 500 PM 5 MILES SOUTH OF HARTLEY. SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED DURING THE PAST HOUR 5 MILES WEST OF STRATFORD..IN SHERMAN COUNTY. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. THE THUNDER STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN FLOYD AND MOTLEY COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS. DUE TO THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 240 HOURS OVER PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLE..LOCALIZED STREET AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE NORTH EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 58 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 62 min |
| May 12, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 64 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.