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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 7:06 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1992, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1992, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Deaf Smith County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 26, 3:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
342 PM CST FRI JUN 26 1992
...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT OR 10 PM CDT FOR
THE EASTERN ONE-HALF OF NEW MEXICO...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE
EASTERN HALF OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 9 PM MDT. THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES
UNION...QUAY...CURRY...AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES.
AT 330 PM CDT OR 230 PM MDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR
IN AMARILLO TEXAS SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM AROUND RATON SOUTH TO SOUTH OF LAS VEGAS.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
ACROSS THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS FROM 40 MILES WEST OF LUBBOCK
SOUTHEAST TO AROUND POST.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN UNION...QUAY...CURRY...AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES
OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO SH`OULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL NEWS MEDIA SOURCES
FOR LATER STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN AMARILLO TEXAS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 68 min |
| Jun 27, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Quay | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Quay | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.