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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1990, 10:09 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 090314 COR
TORAMA
TXC069-090400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1009 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
...CASTRO
AT 1009 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EXTREME NORTHEAST
CASTRO COUNTY..ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF@ DIMMITT. MOVEMENT WAS TO
THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
SCWhat 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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 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 12 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, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 57 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.