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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 1994, 5:18 PM CDT for Oldham County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 1994, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oldham County, TX, Randall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 042220 RRA SVRAMA TXC359-381-042315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 518 PM CDT TUE OCT 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...EASTERN OLDHAM COUNTY...EASTERN RANDALL COUNTY AT 516 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF AMARILLO. THE OTHER STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF VEGA... MOVING ACROSS HIGHWAY 385. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR IS INDICATED BY RADAR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PROPERTY. MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREA2S WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Oct 4, 12:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>026-040600- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT TUE 0CT 04 1994 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND ALL BUT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WARM MOIST AIR CONTINUES TO INCREASE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON RESULTING IN A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT LYING ACROSS THE PANHANDLES WILL HELP TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND WELL INTO THE EVENING. DUE TO THE INCREASING INSTABILITY...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND MOST OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 63 min |
| Oct 4, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 42 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.