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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 22, 1994Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1994, 7:26 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1994, 7:26 PM MDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1994, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KAMA 230126 RRA
SVRAMA
NMC037-230230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
826 PM CDT (726 PM MDT) SUN MAY 22 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT (830 PM MDT)
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...QUAY COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM MDT (825 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF TUCUMCARI. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 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 AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry60 min
May 22, 6:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMACurry3 hr
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.