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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 3, 1994Hartley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 7:55 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1994, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hartley County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 322 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1994-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 3, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham61 min
May 3, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore59 min
May 3, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith56 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.