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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1992, 5:46 PM CDT for Oldham County, Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1992, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1992, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 272247 TORAMA TXC359-375-272345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 546 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SOUTHEASTERN OLDHAM COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN POTTER COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF WILDORADO OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUSHLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT NEAR 15 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, May 27, 12:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-280500- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE RISK AREA IS WEST OF A LINE FROM GUYMON OKLAHOMA TO CHILDRESS TEXAS. BRISK AND MOIST UPSLOPE WINDS AND WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCES WILL MAKE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SINCE MANY SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE HAVE RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THE LAST FEW DAYS...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SP
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 248 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 232 PM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY INCREASING OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...EXTENDING EAST INTO EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DEAF SMITH COUNTY. SOME STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN IN NEW MEXICO BETWEEN LOGAN AND WHEATLAND...AND ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF GLENRIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WIDELY SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH INTO SHERMAN AND HANSFORD COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 350 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 332 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME WESTERN OLDHAM COUNTY SOUTH OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NEAR GLENRIO TO JUST NORTHWEST OF PORTALES. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN 10 MILES EAST OF SAN JON..AND OVER SOUTHWEST OLDHAM COUNTY WET OF ADRIAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH TO NEAR SPEARMAN AND PERRYTON. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 445 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 430 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANNING TEXAS TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRIONA IN THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 AND 545 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...THE NORTH TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE RECENT RAINS LEFT THE GROUNDS SATURATED. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SP
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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.