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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 14, 1990Roberts County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 2:51 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1990, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1990, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Roberts 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1990-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 849 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill, Roberts48 min
Jun 14, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill, Roberts68 min
Jun 14, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver55 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.