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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 26, 1994Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1994, 6:08 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1994, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1994, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 311 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 225 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 26, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith59 min
May 26, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.