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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 8:09 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dumas, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAMA 200113 SVRAMA TXC341-200200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 809 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...MOORE COUNTY AT 810 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MOORE COUNTY...NEAR DUMAS. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL APPROACH SUNRAY WITHIN THE HOUR. PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED COVERING THE GROUND IN DUMAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRPUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF OUTSIDE...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.