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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 12, 1992Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1992, 11:29 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 1992, 11:29 PM MDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1992, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 311 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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 12, 8:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:46 PM MDT, 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	61 min
Jun 12, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	65 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	62 min
Jun 13, 10:49 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	116 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Castro	75 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Swisher	100 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro	75 min
Jun 13, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	100 min
Jun 13, 5:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Briscoe, Swisher	32 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	55 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	31 min
Jun 12, 9:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	64 min
Jun 12, 10:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	50 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.