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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 28, 1990Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1990, 8:16 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
Jul 28, 1990, 8:16 PM MDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1990, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 8:20 PM MDTHail 1.75Quay, NM

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, 2.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 290222 COR
SVRAMA
NMC037-290315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR STORM MOVEMENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
916 PM CDT (816 PM MDT)  JUL 28 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT (915 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
          ...QUAY

AT 915 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT LOGAN
IN QUAY COUNTY NEW MEXICO. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 910 PM
CDT (810 PM MDT) IN THE CITY OF LOGAN REPORTED BY THE LOGAN POLICE
DEPARTMENT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
WPR

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 28, 6:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-009-014-021-
KSZ003-006-290147-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
745 PM  CDT SAT JUL 28 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...

AT 732 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB
COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE..EXTENDING INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO
NEAR ALVA. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY TEXAS..
AND IN ELLIS AND WOODWARD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTH AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES..AND POSSIBLE HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE
NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE..BETWEEN DALHART AND PERRYTON.

IN NEW MEXICO..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE CLAYTON AREA..SOUTH TO NEAR
SANTA ROSA AND FORT SUMNER. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS JUST WEST OF
TUCUMCARI..AND NEAR THE CONCHAS DAM AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT
FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES      [
..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA dWEATHER RADIO OF LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

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.