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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1990Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1990, 7:28 PM CDT for Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1990, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Ochiltree 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 010031 RRA
TORAMA
TXC357-010130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
728 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
          ...OCHILTREE
 
AT 727 PM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN OCHILTREE COUNTY REPORTED 3 TORNADOES
SOUTH OF PERRYTON NEAR FARM TO MARKET ROAD 759. THESE TORNADOES
DESTROYED SEVERAL BARNS AND DAMAGED A HOUSE IN HANSFORD COUNTY
EARLIER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2 hours 15 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

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     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, 2 hours 12 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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	56 min
May 31, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe	67 min
May 31, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	68 min
May 31, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	44 min
May 31, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	56 min
May 31, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Roberts	44 min
May 31, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	60 min
May 31, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	26 min
May 31, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	66 min
May 31, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	61 min
May 31, 10:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	66 min
May 31, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	63 min
Jun 1, 12:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Wheeler	40 min

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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.