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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 20, 1992Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1992, 12:53 AM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 1992, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1992, 1:21 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Carson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 20, 12:45 AM CDT, 8 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 19, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	37 min
Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	36 min
Jun 19, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	25 min
Jun 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	38 min
Jun 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	53 min
Jun 19, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	53 min
Jun 19, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Roberts	60 min
Jun 20, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	47 min
Jun 20, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	68 min
Jun 20, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	42 min
Jun 20, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	67 min
Jun 20, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	68 min
Jun 20, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley	59 min
Jun 20, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	59 min
Jun 20, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	58 min
Jun 20, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry, Quay	55 min
Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	62 min
Jun 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	50 min
Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Cimarron	45 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.