Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1992, 9:22 PM CDT for Hansford County, Sherman County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1992, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1992, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hansford County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 5 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-082145- 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, 3 hours 43 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)
TGSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-090400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 700 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 11 PM CDT... A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD TOWARD THE PANHANDLES. THE UPWARD MOTION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM COMBINED WITH THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PANHANDLES. HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS TONIGHT. SINCE THE GROUND OVER THE AREA IS SATURATED DUE TO THE RECENT RAINS...ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD ESPECIALLY BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. ALSO...DUE TO FAVORABLE WINDS ALOFT...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES THIS EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...ESPECIALLY THOSE WITHIN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA...SHOULD BE READY FOR ACTIVATION REST OF THIS EVENING. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER S?ERVICE AT AMARILLO. DH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro, Swisher | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Swisher | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe, Swisher | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 10:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Roberts | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 41 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.