Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 8:18 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1993, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1993, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Texas County, OK
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 5, 5:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 540 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HANSFORD COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NORTHERN HUTCHISON COUNTY TO NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN HANSFORD COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF GRUVER. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SD
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 540 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HANSFORD COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NORTHERN HUTCHISON COUNTY TO NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN HANSFORD COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF GRUVER. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SD
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 640 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TEXAS COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE UNTIL 715 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND TEXAS COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GRUVER MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AC
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 640 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TEXAS COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE UNTIL 715 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 630 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND TEXAS COUNTY OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF GRUVER MOVING NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 66 min |
| May 5, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 37 min |
| May 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 31 min |
| May 5, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.