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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 8, 1992Castro County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1992, 6:52 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 8, 1992, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1992, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Castro County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Castro, TX
Jun 8, 7:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Castro, TX

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 8, 3:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
335 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE
   TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA
   AND TEXAS PANHANDLES...

AT 325 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL OVER THE NORTHEAST TIP OF
NEW MEXICO INTO EXTREME WESTERN CIMARRON COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS INDICATED MIDWAY BETWEEN CLAYTON
NEW MEXICO AND KENTON OKLAHOMA.

ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OF LESSER
INTENSITY WERE SHOWN OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO...NORTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS
..BETWEEN SANTA ROSA AND QUAY..AND ALSO JUST WEST OF ROSWELL.

ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 10 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

TG

Local storm report, Jun 8, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
535 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORTS FOR THE EVENING OF JUNE 8TH. ALL TIMES
ARE CST...

1553...DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY THE BOISE CITY S.O. JUST W OF
       BOISE CITY...ALSO PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL 3 MILES SW OF
       BOISE CITY ENDED AT 1543  (CIMARRON COUNTY)

1620...DIME SIZE HAIL ENDED JUST SOUTHEAST OF BOISE CITY REPORTED
       BY BOISE CITY S.O.  (CIMARRON COUNTY)

TG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roberts	38 min
Jun 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	46 min
Jun 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	45 min
Jun 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	43 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.