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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Amarillo, TX

September 28, 1995Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas; Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 28, 1995, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Beaver County, OK, Lipscomb County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 1995-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 475 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 1995-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.