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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 5:17 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Swisher County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 25, 12:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>026-260500- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994 THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. THE MODERATE RISK AREA COVERS MUCH OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND IS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CLOVIS NEW MEXICO TO HEREFORD...AMARILLO...PAMPA AND WHEELER TEXAS. THE REMAINDER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE INCLUDED IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA. THE AIRMASS OVER THE PANHANDLES IS VERY MOIST AND BECOMING VERY UNSTABLE AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE 70S AND 80S. UPSLOPE LOW LEVEL EASTERLY WINDS AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE STRONG LIFT TO AID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. NO CLEARLY DEFINED SURFACE BOUNDARIES WERE NOTED TO HELP FOCUS INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO BEFORE NOON WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST AND EAST INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE PANHANDLES. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS OF UP TO 60 MPH OR GREATER. VERTICAL WIND PROFILES ARE NOT STRONGLY FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. MOST STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST OR EAST AT SPEEDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ~ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR LIKELY ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. TG
Special weather statement, May 25, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>026-260500- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CDT WED MAY 25 1994 THERE IS A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. THE MODERATE RISK AREA COVERS MUCH OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND IS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CLOVIS NEW MEXICO TO HEREFORD...AMARILLO...PAMPA AND WHEELER TEXAS. THE REMAINDER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE ARE INCLUDED IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA. THE AIRMASS OVER THE PANHANDLES IS VERY MOIST AND BECOMING VERY UNSTABLE AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE 70S AND 80S. UPSLOPE LOW LEVEL EASTERLY WINDS AND AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE STRONG LIFT TO AID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. NO CLEARLY DEFINED SURFACE BOUNDARIES WERE NOTED TO HELP FOCUS INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO BEFORE NOON WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST AND EAST INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE PANHANDLES. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS OF UP TO 60 MPH OR GREATER. VERTICAL WIND PROFILES ARE NOT STRONGLY FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC DEVELOPMENT...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. MOST STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST OR EAST AT SPEEDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR LIKELY ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. TG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 64 min |
| May 25, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 52 min |
| May 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 52 min |
| May 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 28 min |
| May 25, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 50 min |
| May 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Oldham | 29 min |
| May 25, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 65 min |
| May 25, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 62 min |
| May 25, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 43 min |
| May 25, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 54 min |
| May 25, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Childress | 62 min |
| May 25, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hall | 61 min |
| May 25, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 53 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.