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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 19, 1995Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 19, 1995, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
59 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 01:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 126 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -87 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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
Apr 19, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Moore63 min
Apr 19, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore51 min
Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson, Hutchinson45 min
Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts55 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.