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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1994Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 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 12:00Z on 1994-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-367 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 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 31, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam57 min
May 31, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAUnion52 min
May 31, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron56 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.