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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 28, 1990Ochiltree County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1990, 8:21 PM CDT for Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1990, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 69 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, 1.4 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 290124 COR
TORAMA
TXC357-290230-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
821 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
          ...OCHILTREE

AT 820PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 15 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF FARNSWORTH...OR APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES WEST OF THE WOLF
CREEK COUNTY PARK. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED WITH STORM.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
RUNYON

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

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 7:50 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-009-014-021-
KSZ003-006-290147-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
745 PM  CDT SAT JUL 28 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE...

AT 732 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB
COUNTY OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE..EXTENDING INTO NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA TO
NEAR ALVA. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY TEXAS..
AND IN ELLIS AND WOODWARD COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. MOVEMENT
WAS NORTH AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN LIPSCOMB COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES..AND POSSIBLE HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE
NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE..BETWEEN DALHART AND PERRYTON.

IN NEW MEXICO..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF THE CLAYTON AREA..SOUTH TO NEAR
SANTA ROSA AND FORT SUMNER. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS JUST WEST OF
TUCUMCARI..AND NEAR THE CONCHAS DAM AREA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT
FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES      [
..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA dWEATHER RADIO OF LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro	58 min
Jul 29, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	61 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.