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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 16, 1992Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 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: Apr 16, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Cimarron County, OK

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 16, 7:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Cimarron, OK

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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1019 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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

Local storm report, Apr 16, 1:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

ADDITIONAL STORM REPORTS...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
140 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR EVENING OF APRIL 15,1992

1817 CST...QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN CLARENDON. REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER.
           (DONLEY CO.)

1824 CST...3/4 INCH SIZE HAIL IN CLARENDON. REPORTED BY SHERIFF OFFICE.
           (DONLEY CO.)

1842 CST...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN FRITCH AND LAKE MEREDITH. REPORTED BY
           WATER AUTHORITY. (HUTCHINSON CO.)

1850 CST...2 INCH SIZE HAIL NE OF FRITCH. REPORTED BY BORGER EOC.
           (HUTCHINSON CO.)

1906 CST...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT LAKE MEREDITH.  REPORTED BY WATER
           AUTHORITY. (HUTCHINSON CO.)

1915 CST...FLOODING IN FRITCH TEXAS.  5 INCH RAINFALL IN ONE HOUR AT
           FRITCH REPORTED BY HUTCHINSON CO. E.O.C. (HUTCHINSON CO.)

1915 CST...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT LAKE MEREDITH HARBOR.  REPORTED
           BY LAKE MEREDITH PARK RANGER.  (HUTCHINSON CO,)

1930 CST...NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT FOUR WAY.  REPORTED BY
           SHERIFF OFFICE.  (MOORE CO.)

1951 CST...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4NE OF FRITCH. REPORTED BY WATER AUTHORITY.
           (HUTCHINSON CO.)

2000 CST...QUARTER TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT ALIBATES RECREATION AREA
           IN NORTHEASTERN POTTER CO.  REPORTED BY LAKE MEREDITH PARK
           RANGER.  (POTTER CO.)

2049 CST...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL JUST SW OF BORGER.
           (HUTCHINSON CO.)

2140 CST...DIME SIZE HAIL IN NW CARSON CO. REPORTED BY SKYWARN
           AMATEUR SPOTTER. (CARSON CO.)

2135 CST...NICKEL SIZE HAIL 2N OF FM ROADS 2381 AND 1061.

2200 CST...1/2 INCH SIZE HAIL IN AMARILLO AT 34TH AND WESTERN.
           REPORTED BY TV WEATHERMAN. (RANDALL CO.)

2259 CST...DIME SIZE HAIL 2 MILES SOUTH OF QUITAQUE.  REPORTED BY
           SHERIFF OFFICE.  (BRISCOE CO.)

           APRIL 16, 1992

1100 CST...PALO DURO STATE PARK REPORTS 2 INCH TOTAL RAINFALL.
           ALSO REPORTED THAT DURING STORM SOME WATER CROSSINGS WERE
           INPASSABLE AND SOME CAPMSITE WERE UNDER WATER.
           THIS MORNING..ONLY ONE WATER CROSSING REMAIN INPASSABLE.

CVBi/RRR

Local storm report, Apr 16, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

STORM REPORTS...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
454 PM CDT THU APR 16 1992

STORM REPORTS FOR EVENING OF APRIL 16, 1992

1557 CDT...THREE-QUARTER TO ONE INCH SIZE HAIL 15 MILES WEST OF
           ESTELLINE REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER (HALL CO.)

1558 CDT...DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN TURKEY AND ESTELLINE REPORTED BY
           MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT. (HALL CO.)

1625 CDT...QUARTER SIZE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTH OF TULIA REPORTED BY POLICE
           DEPARTMENT. (SWISHER CO.)

1640 CDT...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL IN TULIA REPORTED BY POLICE
           DEPARTMENT. (SWISHER CO.)

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	60 min
Apr 16, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	60 min
Apr 16, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.