Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1994, 2:41 AM CST for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 1994, 2:41 AM CST (08:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1994, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collingsworth County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KAMA 260842 RRA SVRAMA TXC087-260915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 241 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CST FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY AT 240 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUTIE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF OUTSIDE...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
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, Jan 26, 2:15 AM CST, 26 minutes before
TXZ011>026-260830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 215 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 1 ISSUED EARLIER BY THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER. OLDHAM...POTTER...DEAF SMITH...RANDALL...PARMER...CASTRO...SWISHER AMARILLO IS NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ANDRADE
Special weather statement, Jan 26, 2:15 AM CST, 26 minutes before
TXZ011>026-260830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 215 AM CST WED JAN 26 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 1 ISSUED EARLIER BY THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER. OLDHAM...POTTER...DEAF SMITH...RANDALL...PARMER...CASTRO...SWISHER AMARILLO IS NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ANDRADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 1:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 31 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.