Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1990, 1:59 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1990, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 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, 7.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 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, May 29, 9:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-291530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 940 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 728 AM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..OCCURRING IN ROBERTS..GRAY..SWISHER.. AND BRISCOE COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF CANADIAN..IN THE VICINITY OF MCLEAN..AND 10 AND 25 MILES EAST AND NORTHEAST OF TULIA RESPECTIVELY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE EAST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN THREE-FOURTHS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER STORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ..ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SMALL HAIL. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING AND NOT CROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
Special weather statement, May 29, 9:44 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-291530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 940 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 926 AM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..OCCURRING IN ROBERTS..GRAY..SWISHER.. AND BRISCOE COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF CANADIAN..IN THE VICINITY OF MCLEAN..AND 10 AND 25 MILES EAST AND NORTHEAST OF TULIA RESPECTIVELY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE EAST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN THREE-FOURTHS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER STORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ..ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SMALL HAIL. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING AND NOT CROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
Special weather statement, May 29, 9:59 AM CDT, 4 hours before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-291530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 940 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 926 AM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..OCCURRING IN ROBERTS..GRAY..SWISHER.. AND BRISCOE COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF CANADIAN..IN THE VICINITY OF MCLEAN..AND 10 AND 25 MILES EAST AND NORTHEAST OF TULIA RESPECTIVELY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE EAST HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN THREE-FOURTHS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER STORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE BRIEF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS ..ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SMALL HAIL. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING AND NOT CROSS WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-291730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1159 AM CDT TUE MAY 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE AND NORTH- EAST NEW MEXICO... AT 1134 AM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.. SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..OCCURRING IN DONLEY..COLLINGSWORTH.. AND HALL COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN QUAY COUNTY OF NEW MEXICO. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA..THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE..SOUTHWEST KANSAS..AND MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZED HAS BEEN REPORTED AT PASAMONTE IN SOUTHWEST UNION COUNTY OF NEW MEXICO BY THE WEATHER OBSERVER. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL..AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF LOW` LAND FLOODING. THEREFORE..MOTORISTS SHOULD TAKE CARE AND NOT DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSINGS IF THE DEPTH IS NOT KNOWN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 68 min |
| May 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 58 min |
| May 29, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 63 min |
| May 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 55 min |
| May 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 56 min |
| May 29, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 67 min |
| May 29, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 65 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.