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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 12, 1995Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1995, 4:26 PM CST for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 1995, 4:26 PM CST (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 1995, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wheeler County, TX

The text

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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.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 12, 3:12 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 3:12 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
310 PM CST SUN MAR 12 1995

SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE
UPPER LVL SYSTEM IN THE SRN STREAM CURRENTLY OVER XTRM NRN MEXICO/SWRN
NM...TAKING IT EWD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TX BY 36 HRS...AND THEN
DEVELOPING A CLOSED UPR LOW OVER NERN TX BY 48 HRS. THIS SYSTEM WILL
THEN BE SLOW TO PROGRESS EWD DUE TO THE DOWNSTREAM BLOCKING RIDGE AT 500
MB OVER THE EASTERN U.S/WRN ATLANTIC.

LATEST SFC MAP ANALYSIS INDICATES DRY LINE FROM EXTREME NERN TX
PNHNDL...SWD TO JUST W OF CDS...THEN SWD TO NEAR BIG SPRINGS. BEST LOW
LVL MOISTURE (DWPTS AROUND 50 TO LOWER 50S...MIXING RATIOS OF 8 G/KG
PLUS) LIE OVER THE EXTREME ERN TX PNHNDL JUST EAST OF THE SFC DRYLINE.
WL KEEP MENTION OF POSSIBLE SVR IN ZONES 9..10..14..15..19..AND 20 FOR
TONIGHT. PCGRIDDS FROM ETA MODEL INDICATED BEST UPR LEVEL DIVERGENCE
(500-200 MB) OVERLAID ON LOW LEVEL (850-700 MB) MOISTURE CONVERGENCE...
OVER THE ERN OK AND SERN TX PNHNDLS THRU TONIGHT...AND WILL HAVE HIGHER
POPS IN THIS AREA.  WL GO WITH AROUND 30 POPS FOR CENTRAL STRIP OF
COUNTIES...MAINLY THIS EVE...AND LESS OR NOTHING MENTIONED IN THE WEST.

SFC TROF/WK CDFNT OVR CNTRL PNHNDLS ATTM...WL MOVE EWD INTO WRN OK BY
12Z MON. BEHIND THIS...DRIER AIR WL MOVE INTO FCST AREA FROM W TO E
TONIGHT INTO MONDAY.  GRIDDED DATA SHOWED MID LVL MOISTURE REMAINING
OVER ERN ZONES MON WITH THE WEST FAIRLY DRY. WITH THE UPR LOW AXIS SLOW
TO MOVE EAST MONDAY...IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO KEEP CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS IN
THE EAST WITH P/C OR MOSTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE.

SFC HIGH PRES WILL BUILD INTO FCST AREA MON NIGHT INTO TUESDAY WITH
TRANQUIL WEATHER AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES.

IN THE EXTENDED RANGE...WED THRU FRI PD LOOKS DRY WITH A GRADUAL WARMING
TREND.  AS THE UPR LOW OVER LWR MS VALLEY WED AND THURS...DROPS SWD INTO
NRN GULF...500 MB RIDGING WILL EXPAND FROM SWRN U.S AND MEXICO...ACROSS
THE TX/OK PNHNDLS...AND OVER CENTRAL PLAINS.

FOR TEMPS...WILL GO NEAR OR A FEW DEG HIGHER THAN FWC THRU MON NIGHT.
FAN NUMBERS LOOK BETTER THAN FWC FOR TUES.

.AMA...NONE.
.OK...NONE.

CARUSO

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