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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 12, 1994Union County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1994, 3:12 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1994, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1994, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 267 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 128 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1994-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-428 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 8:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham41 min
Jul 11, 9:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman69 min
Jul 11, 11:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore54 min
Jul 11, 11:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter59 min
Jul 12, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAUnion63 min
Jul 12, 5:07 PM MDTTornado WarningAMAUnion68 min
Jul 11, 9:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas55 min

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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.