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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 1994Gray County, Roberts County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT for Gray County, Roberts County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gray County, TX, Roberts County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1994-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARoberts45 min
May 28, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARoberts45 min
May 28, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray37 min
May 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver24 min
May 29, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver52 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.