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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 7:17 PM CDT for Briscoe County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Briscoe County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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, 0.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jul 2, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:40 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
TXZ002-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 640 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SHERMAN COUNTY AT 0635 PM CDT. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY. SHOWERS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER SHERMAN COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR. COPLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:42 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
TXZ002-030000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 640 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SHERMAN0 COUNTY AT 0635 PM CDT. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STORM HAS WEAKENED CONSIDERABLY. SHOWERS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER SHERMAN COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR. COPLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 65 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.