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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 22, 1995Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 9:38 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 708 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 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Jul 22, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray45 min
Jul 22, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts27 min
Jul 22, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill41 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.