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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 29, 1994Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Beaver County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.5

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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 29, 12:51 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	67 min
Jun 28, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	61 min
Jun 28, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	63 min
Jun 28, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	59 min
Jun 28, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	68 min
Jun 28, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	68 min
Jun 28, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	57 min
Jun 28, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Parmer	61 min
Jun 28, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	61 min
Jun 28, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	69 min
Jun 28, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Gray	69 min
Jun 28, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	49 min
Jun 28, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe	67 min
Jun 29, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	57 min
Jun 28, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	47 min
Jun 28, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Quay	26 min
Jun 28, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry, Quay	57 min
Jun 28, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roosevelt	60 min
Jun 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Curry	3 hr
Jun 28, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	63 min
Jun 28, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	40 min
Jun 29, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	65 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.