Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1995, 12:16 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 1995, 12:16 PM CDT (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Beaver County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 17, 9:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1000 AM CDT MON APR 17 1995 COMPLEX SURFACE PATTERN OF WEAK LOW PRESSURE CENTERS...STATIONARY FRONTS AND COLD FRONTS ALL OVER OR PUSHING INTO THE PANHANDLES. THE DRY LINE HAS SHIFTED INTO NEW MEXICO AND WILL REMAIN THERE FOR THE MORNING AT LEAST. UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM TRACKING OVER FOUR CORNERS WITH STRONGEST DYNAMICS YET TO COME. AS DAY PROGRESSES IT LOOKS LIKE THE EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN ZONES WILL BE THE MOST ACTIVE. EXTENSIVE NVA AND DRY AIR IS FORECAST INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. WINDS IN NEW MEXICO ARE PICKING UP AND THE WIND ADVISORY FOR LATER TODAY LOOKS PROBABLE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EAST OF ABQ AND THE TCU PROFILER CONFIRMS STRENGTHENING WINDS ALOFT. HOWEVER THE SYSTEM IS PASSING A LITTLE FURTHER TO THE WEST SO I DO NOT EXPECT TO SEE QUITE AS STRONG A WIND FIELD AS YESTERDAYS GUIDANCE INDICATED. WILL KEEP POPS HIGH IN EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. WILL CONTINUE CLEARING TREND FROM THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. WEST DOWNSLOPE WINDS SHOULD HELP DRY OUT THE AREA. .AMA...WIND ADVISORY TXZ001>020 FOR MONDAY. .OK...WIND ADVISORY OKZ001>003 FOR MONDAY. COPLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 25 min |
| Apr 17, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 58 min |
| Apr 17, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 52 min |
| Apr 17, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 20 min |
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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.