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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 31, 1995Swisher County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 5:31 AM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1995, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1995, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

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 31, 3:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	69 min
May 30, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	67 min
May 30, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	28 min
May 30, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	62 min
May 30, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	68 min
May 30, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	69 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	58 min
May 30, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	59 min
May 30, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	68 min
May 30, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	65 min
May 31, 12:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson	2 hr
May 31, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	38 min
May 31, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	46 min
May 31, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	43 min
May 31, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	57 min
May 31, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Wheeler	66 min
May 31, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	37 min
May 31, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	63 min
May 31, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	47 min
May 31, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley, Hall	28 min
May 31, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe, Hall	56 min
May 31, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hall	59 min
May 31, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	56 min
May 30, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	57 min
May 30, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.