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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 28, 1993Potter County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1993, 7:16 PM CDT for Potter County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1993, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1504 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Apr 28, 3:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-280300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
310 PM CDT WED APR 28 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR

     PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO...
     PORTIONS OF WESTERN TEXAS...AND
     PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE...

IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...DALLAM...HARTLEY...OLDHAM...DEAF
SMITH...CASTRO AND PARMER.  IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...CIMARRON.
IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO...UNION...QUAY...CURRY AND ROOSEVELT.

LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS
ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 70 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF WINK TEXAS
TO 35 MILES NORTH OF CLAYTON NEW MEXICO.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORVM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

JSE
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-282145

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
345 PM CDT WED APR 28 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEW
MEXICO...PORTIONS OF WESTERN TEXAS...AND PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES...

AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN UNION COUNTY NEW MEXICO 20 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CLAYTON AND 25 MILES WEST OF CLAYTON.  THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING WEST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALSO
MOVING THROUGH ESTERN BEAVER COUNTY 1O MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEAVER.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAS T AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  ANOTHER
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN OCHILTREE COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTH OF
PERRYTON.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD BE POSSIBLE WITH
THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.

AC
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-282245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
345 PM CDT WED APR 28 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT)
FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND FOR
EASTERN NEW MEXICO...

AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SOME
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO.  THESE STORMS WERE 30
MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CLAYTON NEAR GLADSTONE...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
TUCUMCARI AND FROM TUCUMCARI TO NEAR RAGLAND.  MOVEMENT WAS EASTERLY AT
10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE
BETWEEN PERRYTON AND DARROUZETTE AND NEAR SLAPOUT IN SOUTHEAST BEAVER
COUNTY OF BEAVER COUNTY OF THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD BE POSSIBLE WITH
THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro65 min
Apr 28, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall56 min
Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall53 min
Apr 28, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson61 min
Apr 28, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson25 min
Apr 28, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill59 min
Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.