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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 5, 1995Briscoe County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 3:03 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Briscoe County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 852 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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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 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 23 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 23 hours 33 minutes 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron62 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.