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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1992, 4:49 PM CST for Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1992, 4:49 PM CST (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1992, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 032251 TORAMA TXC381-032315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 449 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...NORTHEASTERN RANDALL COUNTY AT 449 PM CST RADAR INDICIATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF AMARILLO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE_ BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 3, 11:08 AM CST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-040600- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1108 AM CST TUE MAR 3 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHEAST...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS ROUGHLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM PERRYTON TO AMARILLO. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO LATE THIS MORNING. SOUTHERLY WINDS ACROSS THE PANHANDLES WERE ALLOWING RICH GULF OF MEXICO MOISTURE TO STREAM NORTHWARD INTO OUR AREA WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 40S AND 50S. THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE WAS ALREADY UNSTABLE. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL WEATHER DISTURBANCE EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO INTO NORTHERN MEXICO AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST. AS THIS DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO WEST TEXAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS ALL OF THE PANHANDLES. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREA AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. IF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENI7NG. RUBIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 65 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.