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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 7, 1995Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 2:29 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1995, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 7, 9:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:51 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 7, 8:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 10:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 7, 10:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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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, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	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, 2:42 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.