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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 2, 1993Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1993, 10:16 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1993, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1993, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
59 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 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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 00:00Z on 1993-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1993-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 030316
TORAMA
OKC007-030415-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1016 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
 
   ...NORTHERN BEAVER COUNTY
 
AT 1015 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR LIBERAL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR. PERSONS IN TURPIN AND FORGAN TAKE COVER NOW.
 
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF
ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WhINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO
NOT RUN OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver59 min
Jun 2, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas44 min
Jun 2, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver28 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1993Every tornado warning in 1993Tornadoes 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.