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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 2, 1995Carson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 12:06 PM CDT for Carson County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1995, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Carson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 10:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

FPUS3 KAMA 021435
AFDAMA

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1000 AM CDT FRI JUN 02 1995

WILL BE BRIEF...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS STARTING AT 9 AM IN THE
PANHANDLES.  ZONES LOOK ON TRACK WILL PROBABLY GO WITH CATAGORICAL
POPS FOR THE AFTERNOON IF STORMS KEEP DEVELOPING.  UNSTABLE AIRMASS
JUST WAITING FOR A TRIGGER.  BOTH MODELS SHOW A STRONG VORT CENTER
OVER THE PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  WINDS WILL
INCREASE FROM THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST BRINGING MORE MOISTURE AND
INCREASING STORM INFLOWS.

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

COPLEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 10:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	68 min
Jun 2, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	63 min
Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Carson	2 hr
Jun 2, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	28 min
Jun 2, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Potter	64 min
Jun 2, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	65 min
Jun 2, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hartley	56 min
Jun 2, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro, Swisher	55 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Parmer	46 min
Jun 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Parmer	30 min
Jun 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Castro, Swisher	40 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Curry	58 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.