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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 9:54 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 9:54 PM CDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 severe thunderstorm 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 10, 7:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ001>004-006>009-011>014-016>018-021>024-OKZ001-NMZ007-013-020>021-110600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 759 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (11 PM MDT) FOR FAR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (11 PM MDT) FOR THE NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN NEW MEXICO: UNION... QUAY...CURRY...AND ROOSEVELT...IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: CIMARRON COUNTY...IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: DALLAM...SHERMAN...HANSFORD... OCHILTREE...HARTLEY...MOORE...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...OLDHAM... POTTER...CARSON...GRAY...DEAF SMITH...RANDALL...ARMSTRONG...PARMER... CASTRO...SWISHER...AND BRISCOE. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DH
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TXZ001>004-006>009-011>014-016>018-021>024-OKZ001-NMZ007-013-020>021-110600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 759 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (11 PM MDT) FOR FAR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (11 PM MDT) FOR THE NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN NEW MEXICO: UNION... QUAY...CURRY...AND ROOSEVELT...IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE: CIMARRON COUNTY...IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: DALLAM...SHERMAN...HANSFORD... OCHILTREE...HARTLEY...MOORE...HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...OLDHAM... POTTER...CARSON...GRAY...DEAF SMITH...RANDALL...ARMSTRONG...PARMER... CASTRO...SWISHER...AND BRISCOE. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOzOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 68 min |
| Jun 10, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 68 min |
| Jun 10, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Quay | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 68 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.