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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 3, 1995Briscoe County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 9:01 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Briscoe County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1995-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1738 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 1995-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1738 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.4

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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 3, 8:57 PM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 8:57 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
815 PM CDT SAT JUN 03 1995

DRYLN BACKING WITH MSTR RETURNING TO THE SW TX PNHDL.  STILL A VRY
GOOD CHC FOR MORE TSTMS LATER TNGT WHEN VORT MAX COMES ACRS.  WILL
RAISE POPS TO LIKELY CAT...EXTEND FFA TX/OK PNHDLS UNTIL DAYBREAK
...AND MENTION PSBL SVR/HVY RAIN ALL ZONES.  JUST ANOTHER SPRING DAY!

.AMA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ZONES 1>20.
.OK...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ZONES 1>3.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth58 min
Jun 3, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABriscoe59 min
Jun 3, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAChildress43 min
Jun 3, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson66 min
Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall60 min
Jun 3, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABriscoe58 min
Jun 3, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall68 min
Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress60 min
Jun 3, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASwisher40 min
Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe62 min
Jun 3, 11:23 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABriscoe52 min
Jun 3, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHall28 min
Jun 4, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHall37 min
Jun 4, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAChildress, Hall5 hr
Jun 4, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro54 min
Jun 4, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro, Deaf Smith62 min
Jun 4, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro38 min
Jun 4, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith41 min
Jun 4, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACastro61 min
Jun 4, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACastro46 min
Jun 4, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley60 min
Jun 4, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASwisher46 min
Jun 4, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron66 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.