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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 22, 1994Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1994, 6:15 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1994, 6:15 PM MDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1994, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1994-05-23Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -78 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
1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 22, 6:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro, Parmer116 min
May 22, 8:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACastro, Parmer3 hr
May 22, 6:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry3 hr
May 22, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAQuay64 min
May 22, 10:01 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry3 hr

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.