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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 1994Collingsworth County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1994, 5:29 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1994, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Collingsworth County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 632 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 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 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
632 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Jun 5, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley43 min
Jun 5, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAWheeler51 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Donley52 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.