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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Amarillo, TX

March 25, 1995Collingsworth County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 7:44 AM CST for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1995, 7:44 AM CST (13:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1995, 8:45 AM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Collingsworth County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

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 Mar 25, 4:04 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 4:04 AM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 6:25 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 6:26 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 7:25 AM CST, 19 minutes before

OKZ002-003-TXZ002>005-007>010-012>015-017>020-022>026-251630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
726 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE
CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  ALTHOUGH A FEW
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE AREA...THE THREAT
FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED FURTHER EAST INTO THE PANHANDLES.

THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ONLY...SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER
...RANDALL AND CASTRO.

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS
AFTERNOON.

COLTON

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 7:26 AM CST, 18 minutes before

OKZ002-003-TXZ002>005-007>010-012>015-017>020-022>026-251630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
726 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995

...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE
HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE
CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  ALTHOUGH A FEW
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE AREA...THE THREAT
FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED FURTHER EAST INTO THE PANHANDLES.

THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ONLY...SHERMAN...MOORE...POTTER
...RANDALL AND CASTRO.

THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS
AFTERNOON.

COLTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 2:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	55 min
Mar 25, 3:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	28 min
Mar 25, 6:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	57 min
Mar 25, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	51 min
Mar 25, 1:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	35 min
Mar 25, 3:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	33 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.