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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 2, 1991Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1991, 4:49 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 1991, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Texas County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1991-05-02Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1991-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Sherman67 min
May 2, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Sherman45 min
May 2, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Sherman57 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.