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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 18, 1992Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 6:23 PM CDT for Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Oldham County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -287 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1973 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

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 18, 12:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
100 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992

THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS
PANHANDLES.

THE AIRMASS OVER THE PANHANDLES IS SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE BUT WARM
TEMPERATURES ALOFT WILL ACT AS A CAP AND INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE LIKELY TODAY.

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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 18, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	56 min
Jun 18, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	61 min
Jun 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	57 min
Jun 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	30 min
Jun 18, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	30 min
Jun 18, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	36 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.