Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT for Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Donley County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1861 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.4
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 Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour before
FPUS3 KAMA 042004 AFDAMA TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 330 PM CDT SUN JUN 04 1995 ATMOSPHERE REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE ARCOSS THE PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN THAT WAY UNTILL NEXT UPPER LEVEL VORT MAX ROTATES ACROSS TONIGHT. DRY LINE HAS MADE FURTHER EAST PROGRESS THIS AFTERNOON THAN YESTERDAY. CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER EXTREME WEST PORTION OF FCST AREA. HOWEVER I EXPECT THE DRY LINE TO RETREAT BACK INTO NEW MEXICO AFTER SUNDOWN. ALL MODELS DEVELOP THE LEE TROF MONDAY AFTERNOON. BLV THIS FEATURE WILL FINALLY DRY OU AT LEAST THE WEST PORTION OF FCST AREA. IN THE SHORT TERM LI VALUES ARE IN THE -8 TO -10 RANGE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND IS MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES EXTREMLY UNSTABLE. WILL EXTEND THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE THE ENTIRE TX PNHDL TILL 12Z/05 TO OKCFFGTX2 GUIDANCE. BLV NEXT ROUND OF TSTMS WL MEET OR EXCEED THESE VALUES ACROSS MOST LOCATIONS. SLATTERY .AMA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TX ZONES 1>20 TILL 12Z/05. .OK...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>026-050545- TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1245 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS THE PANHANDLES TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHWESTERN KANSAS WILL SPIN DISTURBANCES ACROSS THE PANHANDLES TODAY AND TONIGHT. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS THE ENTIRE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. COPLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Childress | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 66 min |
| Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Swisher | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Briscoe | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 11:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hall | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hall | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 1:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Childress, Hall | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro, Deaf Smith | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Castro | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Swisher | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 66 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.