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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 25, 1995Wheeler County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 6:18 AM CST for Wheeler County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1995, 6:18 AM CST (12:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1995, 7:15 AM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wheeler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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 12:00Z on 1995-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 274 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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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 Mar 25, 4:04 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 4:04 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 2:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson55 min
Mar 25, 3:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong28 min
Mar 25, 7:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth61 min
Mar 25, 12:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas51 min
Mar 25, 1:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver35 min
Mar 25, 3:42 PM CSTTornado WarningAMABeaver33 min

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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.