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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 18, 1992Castro County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 9:10 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Castro County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 190211
TORAMA
TXC069-190245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
910 PM CDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...EASTERN CASTRO COUNTY
 
AT 906 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED BETWEEN DIMMITT AND NAZARETH
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN NAZARETH SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW.
 
 
 
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.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WI)TH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	68 min
Jun 18, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	61 min
Jun 18, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong	30 min
Jun 18, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	45 min
Jun 18, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro	56 min
Jun 18, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	56 min
Jun 18, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	66 min
Jun 19, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam	44 min
Jun 19, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore, Sherman	55 min
Jun 19, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	57 min
Jun 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	32 min
Jun 19, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	42 min
Jun 19, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	30 min
Jun 19, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	35 min
Jun 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Gray, Roberts	61 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.