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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 3, 1992Randall County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 591 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 3:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher45 min
Mar 3, 4:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall58 min
Mar 3, 4:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Carson65 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.