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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 10:06 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Collingsworth County, TX, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 090309
SVRAMA
TXC087-129-090415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1006 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...COLLINGSWORTH...DONLEY
AT 1005 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN
COLLINGSWORTH..15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHAMROCK AND IN NORTHERN DONLEY
COUNTY..10 MILES SOUTH OF ALARNREED. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT
15 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALL7Y DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
SCWhat 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, Jun 8, 4:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 415 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO... AT 4 PM..THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A COLD FRONT WHICH WAS LOCATED BETWEEN TUCUMCARI AND CLAYTON..TO JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO. VERY GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-090055 - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 640 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 635 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MIAMI AND PAMPA. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR DES MOINES SOUTHWARD TO NEAR LOGAN. VERY GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts, Wheeler | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Randall | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Wheeler | 68 min |
| Jun 8, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.