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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 29, 1994Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 10:42 PM CDT for Gray County, Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1994, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1994, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gray County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2620 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
2620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2272 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.5

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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
Jun 29, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMALipscomb40 min
Jun 29, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford54 min
Jun 29, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler43 min
Jun 29, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas45 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.