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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 7, 1995Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 1:33 AM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 1:33 AM MDT (07:33 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 2:30 AM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1995-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 070734
SVRAMA
NMC009-070830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
233 AM CDT (133 AM MDT) SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CDT (230 AM MDT)
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...CURRY COUNTY
 
AT 235 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO
SOUTHWEST CURRY COUNTY. MELROSE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AT IT
MOVES NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  MOVE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM AREAS
WHERE LOOSE ITEMS COULD BECOME FLYING DEBRIS.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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 May 6, 7:39 PM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 7:39 PM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
830 PM CDT SAT MAY 06 1995

DRYLN MOVD ABT 30 MILES E OF AMA...AND HAS RETREATED TO NR A GUY-
AMA-INK LN.  BNDRY FM RAIN-COOLED AIR IN OK LIES ACRS SERN ZNS...
WHERE SFC MSTR AXIS EXTDS NWD THRU ERN ZNS.  OLD WMFNT INTERSECTS
DRYLN SW OF LBB.  SATELLITE INDCS INCRGLY DIFFLUENT FLOW OVR PNHDLS
...AND AS 135 KT JET STREAK SEEN AT 42000 FT ON 00Z ELP SOUNDING
MOVS OVHD TNGT...TRW DVLPMT WL BE LIKELY.  345 PM FCST HAS A GOOD
HANDLE ON SITUATION...AND NO SGFNT CHANGES WL BE MADE ATTM.  03

.AMA...NONE.
.OK...NONE.

COCKRELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt54 min
May 6, 11:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry42 min
May 7, 1:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACurry, Roosevelt67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 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.