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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 12, 1993Roberts County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 1993, 6:19 PM CDT for Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 1993, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Roberts County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 12:00Z on 1993-10-12Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree65 min
Oct 12, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts55 min
Oct 12, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree44 min
Oct 12, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAGray52 min
Oct 12, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas54 min

Nearby

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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.