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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 3, 1995Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 12:08 AM CDT for Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Oldham County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.2

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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, 9:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
825 PM CDT FRI JUN 02 1995

IN LIGHT OF ALL THE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PLACE ACRS THE PNHDLS
THIS EVE2...WILL LEAVE THE PREV FCST PACKAGE ALONE FOR THE FIRST PD.
LOOKS TO BE IN THE BALLPARK AS FAR AS TEMPS AND WNDS GO.

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

SCHNEIDER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith44 min
Jun 2, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAParmer33 min
Jun 2, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro50 min
Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher47 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall62 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith62 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham65 min
Jun 2, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro51 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher46 min
Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARandall45 min
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith68 min
Jun 2, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher65 min
Jun 2, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham, Potter58 min
Jun 2, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall59 min
Jun 2, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher65 min
Jun 2, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong60 min
Jun 3, 12:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter46 min
Jun 3, 1:12 AM CDTTornado WarningAMAPotter48 min
Jun 3, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith67 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHall59 min
Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham65 min
Jun 3, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHall66 min
Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress62 min
Jun 3, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe59 min
Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Oldham60 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe, Childress, Hall62 min
Jun 3, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAChildress55 min
Jun 3, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter64 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.