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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1993, 7:50 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1993, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 290054 TORAMA TXC065-290115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 750 PM CDT WED APR 28 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...CARSON COUNTY AT 749 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED JUST EAST OF PANTEX MOVING EAST TOWARDS PANHANDLE. IF YOU ARE IN PANHANDLE...TAKE 8SHELTER NOW. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDINGS. AS A LAST RESORT... FIND A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
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, Apr 28, 3:14 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 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.
JSESpecial weather statement, Apr 28, 3:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 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, 3 hours 11 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 61 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.