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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 9, 1990Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 6:03 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1990, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Moore 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 12:00Z on 1990-06-09Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1990-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 9, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
440 PM CDT SAT JUN 9  1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS
 AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 10 PM...

AT 430 PM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO..THE NORTH THIRD OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE..THE
SOUTHEAST PART OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND WEST OKLAHOMA. LOCALLY
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO..25 MILES
SOUTH OF CLAYTON. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO NOTED NEAR TEXLINE..IN
THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.

ELSEWHERE...AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM HAD BEGUN TO DEVELOP OVER THE
NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS..15 MILES SOUTH OF CHILDRESS.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.
WPR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson, Gray69 min
Jun 8, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAGray48 min
Jun 8, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson28 min
Jun 8, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson46 min
Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAGray, Roberts, Wheeler67 min
Jun 8, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson, Randall43 min
Jun 8, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray, Wheeler68 min
Jun 8, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Donley69 min
Jun 8, 10:09 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro36 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.