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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 9, 1992Swisher County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1992, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1992, 4:55 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Swisher County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 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 9, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute 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 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, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	38 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	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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992 Every 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.