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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1990Collingsworth County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1990, 7:04 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1990, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Collingsworth 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1990-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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 010007
SVRAMA
TXC087-010100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
704 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
          ...WESTERN COLLINGSWORTH
 
AT 7 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF
HEDLEY ON THE COUNTY LINE AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INS_IDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 51 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 48 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree62 min
May 31, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe67 min
May 31, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb68 min
May 31, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Ochiltree44 min
May 31, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler56 min
May 31, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHutchinson, Roberts44 min
May 31, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Ochiltree60 min
May 31, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress26 min
May 31, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARoberts66 min
May 31, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAOchiltree61 min
May 31, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill66 min
May 31, 11:42 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill63 min
Jun 1, 12:35 AM CDTTornado WarningAMAWheeler40 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.