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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 24, 1991Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1991, 8:40 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1991, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1991, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Beaver County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 00:00Z on 1991-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1991-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.5

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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 24, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Randall61 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson, Moore63 min
May 24, 8:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMARandall3 hr
May 24, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall59 min
May 24, 8:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAArmstrong2 hr
May 24, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHutchinson36 min
May 24, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher29 min
May 24, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas57 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.