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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 28, 1995Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 9:18 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 9:18 PM MDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 290318
SVRAMA
NMC037-290415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1018 PM CDT (918 PM MDT) SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT (1015 PM MDT)
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...QUAY COUNTY
 
AT 9:15 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RAGLAND AND
ALSO JUST SOUTH OF SAN JON. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE STRONG
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.
THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 2O MPH.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR IS INDICATED BY RADAR.  PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PROPERTY.
MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 May 28, 7:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 7:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
830 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

NO CHANGES TO 345 PM ZONES.  03

.AMA...NONE.

COCKRELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAQuay56 min
May 28, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAQuay58 min
May 29, 2:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoosevelt52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.