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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 23, 1995Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 620 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong69 min
Jun 23, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall35 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson30 min
Jun 23, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill67 min
Jun 23, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADonley63 min
Jun 23, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall40 min
Jun 23, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter48 min
Jun 24, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas54 min
Jun 23, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.