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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1992, 10:33 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1992, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Parmer County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Parmer, TX | |
| Jun 27, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Parmer, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 2827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 280335 TORAMA TXC369-280415- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1033 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...PARMER COUNTY AT 1032 PM CDT..THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN BOVINA REPORTED A TORNADO JUST NORTHWEST OF BOVINA. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER 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 I N 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, Jun 27, 5:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 540 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND THE WESTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 530 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST NORTH OF TUCUMCARI IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY ALSO BE PRODUCING HAIL. PEOPLE IN TUCUMCARI AND MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 40 SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS THUNDERSTORM. OTHER ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE IN NORTH CENTRAL OLDHAM COUNTY AND ALSO IN SOUTHWEST MOORE COUNTY WEST OF FOUR WAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOISE CITY TO 10 MILES WEST OF ELKHART... 10 MILES NORTH OF ELKHART AND 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIBERAL. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro, Deaf Smith | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Parmer | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Randall | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 57 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.