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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 1991Moore County, Sherman County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1991, 7:18 PM CDT for Moore County, Sherman County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1991, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1991, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 7:30 PM CDT	Hail 1	Moore, TX
Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Sherman, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 2943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 5, 2:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-060300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
300 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991

...TORNADO WATCH #486 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR THE
WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AND PARTS OF
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE CIMARRON AND BEAVER.
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNION...QUAY..CURRY AND ROOSEVELT.  IN THE
TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH...PARMER...
SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER...RANDALL...CASTRO...SWISHER...HANSFORD...
HUTCHINSON...CARSON AND ARMSTRONG.

TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL....DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM
WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES.

BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

EISE

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-060300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
300 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991

...TORNADO WATCH #486 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT) FOR THE
WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AND PARTS OF
NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE CIMARRON AND TEXAS.
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNION...QUAY..CURRY AND ROOSEVELT.  IN THE
TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF SMITH...PARMER...
SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER...RANDALL...CASTRO...SWISHER...HANSFORD...
HUTCHINSON...CARSON AND ARMSTRONG.

TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL....DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM
WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES.

BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

...CORRECTION TO ADD TEXAS COUNTY OKLAHOMA IN PLACE OF BEAVER COUNTY...

EISE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Castro	116 min
Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	67 min
Jun 5, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hall	57 min
Jun 5, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	55 min
Jun 5, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	40 min
Jun 5, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	65 min
Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Wheeler	3 hr
Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	15 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	55 min
Jun 6, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roosevelt	61 min
Jun 6, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roosevelt	38 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	58 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Curry	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.