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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1993, 6:48 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1993, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Parmer County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 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 18, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ001>009-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>003-191200- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 1993 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON... EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE SEVERE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLOODING RAINS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR...LARGE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. MOIST AIR COMBINED WITH HEATING THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. THE LIFT NECESSARY TO INITIATE STORMS WILL BE ALONG A DRYLINE MOVING EAST OUT OF NEW MEXICO...AND ALONG SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM OVERNIGHT STORMS. ALSO...THE WINDS OVER THE PANHANDLES ARE CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ROTATING SUPERCELL STORMS. ANY SEVERE STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP AFTER 300 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. OVERNIGHT THE MAIN THREAT FROM STORMS WILL BE FLOODING RAINS. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON IF NECESSARY. JSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Sherman | 117 min |
| Jun 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 61 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.