Tornado Warning 31, NWS Amarillo, TX

Issued

Jun 12, 1992, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)

Expired

Jun 12, 1992, 4:00 PM MDT

In force

25 min

Issued by

NWS Amarillo, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

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.

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TTAA00 KAMA 122136
TORAMA
NMC041-122200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
435 PM CDT (335 PM MDT) FRI JUN 12 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT (400 PM MDT)
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY
 
AT 335 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED BY THE PUBLIC SOUTHEAST OF
PORTALES MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH.
 
 
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.  USEB BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

In the hours before

TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-130500-

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
100 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 1992

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN HALVES OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES.
THE AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM GUYMON OKLAHOMA TO
AMARILLO TEXAS.

THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE PANHANDLES REMAINS MOIST AND IS BECOMING
INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. UPSLOPE
SOUTHEAST WINDS AND A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVING IN FROM CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO WILL ACT ON THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO CAUSE ANOTHER ROUND OF
THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON...CONTINUING INTO THE
NIGHTTIME HOURS.

THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FIRST DEVELOP IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND
SOUTHEAST COLORADO...THEN MOVE SOUTEHAST INTO THE PANHANDLES. THE BEST
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE AREA
...WHERE SOME OF THEM MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
IN ADDITION...BECAUSE THE GROUND REMAINS SATURATED...HEAVY RAINS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING OR FLASH
FLOODING.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE WESTERN HALVES
OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR
ACTIVATION LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING IF NECESSARYx.

ANDRADE

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 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.