Tornado Warning 24, NWS Amarillo, TX

Issued

Jun 5, 1992, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)

Expired

Jun 5, 1992, 2:02 AM CDT

In force

18 min

Issued by

NWS Amarillo, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Potter County, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 050645
TORAMA
TXC375-050715-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
144 AM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...SOUTHERN POTTER COUNTY
 
AT 143 AM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS SIGHTED IN NORTHEAST AMARILLO.
SPOTTERS SAY THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR 24 STREET AND LOOP
335.
 
 
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.

In the hours before

TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-
KSZ003-006-050145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
753 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM CDT FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST
   HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...

AT 740 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER
NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY NEAR DUMAS AND BRYDEN. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS PRODUCING PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SMALL
HAIL.  PERSONS IN MOORE COUNTY SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THIS
STORM IT MOVES SOUTH AT 10 MPH ACROSS THE COUNTY. BECAUSE OF THE
STORMS SLOW MOVEMENT...THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME MINOR FLOODING OF
LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS EXSISTS.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN NORTHEASTERN
NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS UNION AND HARDING COUNTIES
FROM AROUND PASAMONTE SOUTH TO MOSQUERO.
^
MOVEMENT WAS ALSO TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes in 1992

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.