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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 6, 1991Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1991, 4:52 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report 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 6, 1991, 4:52 PM MDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1991, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 5:23 PM MDTTornado F0Roosevelt, NM

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-06-06Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.7

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro116 min
Jun 5, 6:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson67 min
Jun 5, 6:18 PM MDTTornado WarningAMAMoore, Sherman57 min
Jun 5, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall57 min
Jun 5, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley55 min
Jun 5, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman40 min
Jun 5, 8:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson65 min
Jun 5, 8:36 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMAWheeler3 hr
Jun 5, 8:15 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron15 min
Jun 5, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas55 min
Jun 6, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoosevelt61 min
Jun 6, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAQuay58 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACurry27 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.