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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 24, 1995Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 6:43 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 7:37 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Texas County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson58 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 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.