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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 23, 1995Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 10:25 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1995, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1995, 11:02 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Moore County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1572 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 23, 8:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 8:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	46 min
Jul 23, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	64 min
Jul 23, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	58 min
Jul 23, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong	26 min
Jul 23, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	31 min
Jul 23, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	57 min
Jul 23, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong	50 min
Jul 23, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	27 min
Jul 23, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	61 min
Jul 23, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	41 min
Jul 23, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	30 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.