Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 2:48 AM CDT for Carson County, Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1995, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carson County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 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
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 May 6, 8:39 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 8:39 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Parmer | 29 min |
| May 7, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro | 46 min |
| May 7, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Castro, Deaf Smith, Randall | 58 min |
| May 7, 1:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Randall | 51 min |
| May 7, 1:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Randall | 3 hr |
| May 7, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 67 min |
| May 7, 2:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Potter | 57 min |
| May 7, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 44 min |
| May 7, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 67 min |
| May 7, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 47 min |
| May 7, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 64 min |
| May 7, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 50 min |
| May 7, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 43 min |
| May 7, 8:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 25 min |
| May 7, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 57 min |
| May 7, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 65 min |
| May 7, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 66 min |
| May 7, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 54 min |
| May 7, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 69 min |
| May 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Childress | 60 min |
| May 7, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 56 min |
| May 7, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 31 min |
| May 7, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 63 min |
| May 7, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 21 min |
| May 7, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 38 min |
| May 7, 7:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 37 min |
| May 7, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 30 min |
| May 7, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 52 min |
| May 7, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 55 min |
| May 7, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 60 min |
| May 7, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 60 min |
| May 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry, Roosevelt | 54 min |
| May 7, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry | 42 min |
| May 7, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry | 57 min |
| May 7, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry, Roosevelt | 67 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.