Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1990, 6:36 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1990, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Donley 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 86 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, May 31, 5:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX
511 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990
STORM REPORT FOR AFTERNOON OF MAY 31 1990
TORNADO REPORTED AT 1709 CDT AT HIWAY 281 AND 70 IN SOUTHERN OCHILTREE
CNTY..APPROX. 21 MILES SOUTH OF PERRYTON..RPTD BY SO
OTHER FUNNEL CLOUDS REPORTED IN EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OCHILTREE..RPTD
BY HANSFORD CNTY SO
SC
NO REPORTS RECEIVED
6) 1420-1515 CST...SVR TSTM WRNG FOR MOORE COUNTY
1445 CST..ALMOST GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 11 MILES NE OF CHANNING
(IN MOORE CO.)--RPT BY COOP OBSERVER.
7) 1549-1745 CST...SVR TSTM WRNG FOR SRN HALL COUNTY TX
NO REPORTS RECEIVED.
8) 1638-1745 CST...SVR TSTM WRNG FOR CHILDRESS COUNTY TX
1655 CST...PEA TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL WEST OF CHILDRESS--
RPT BY K96 RADIO IN CHILDRESS.
OTHER REPORTS
1815 CST...PUBLIC REPORT OF TORNADO 25 MILES EAST OF FOLSOM NEW
MEXICO (UNION COUNTY). WAS ON GROUND ABOUT 10 MINUTES. TIME
APPROXIMATE.
1857 CST...PUBLIC REPORT OF TORNADO JUST NORTHEAST OF TURPIN
OKLAHOMA. EYEWITNESSES REPORTED THAT TOUCHDOWN WAS VERY
BRIEF AND THE BASE WAS ONLY 10 TO 20 YARDS WIDE. SMALL
GARAGE WAS BLOWN OVER ONTO A CAR...WINDOW SUCKED OUT OF A
HOME...AND A PICNIC TABLE OVERTURNED.Local storm report, May 31, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX 516 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990 STORM REPORT FOR AFTERNOON OF MAY 31 1990 TORNADO REPORTED AT 1709 CDT AT HIWAY 281 AND 70 IN SOUTHERN OCHILTREE CNTY..APPROX. 21 MILES SOUTH OF PERRYTON..RPTD BY SO OTHER FUNNEL CLOUDS REPORTED IN EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OCHILTREE..RPTD BY HANSFORD CNTY SO SC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 58 min |
| May 31, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 56 min |
| May 31, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 69 min |
| May 31, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 56 min |
| May 31, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 23 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.