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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 1991Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1991, 9:15 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1991, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1991, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cimarron County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro116 min
Jun 5, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson67 min
Jun 5, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore, Sherman57 min
Jun 5, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall57 min
Jun 5, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley55 min
Jun 5, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman40 min
Jun 5, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson65 min
Jun 5, 9:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAWheeler3 hr
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas55 min
Jun 6, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoosevelt61 min
Jun 6, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARoosevelt38 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAQuay58 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACurry27 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.