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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 17, 1993Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1993, 5:51 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1993, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAParmer63 min
May 17, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter49 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress58 min
May 17, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall58 min
May 17, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth45 min
May 17, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray63 min
May 17, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas58 min
May 17, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas63 min
May 17, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.