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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 15, 1995Hall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 7:06 PM CDT for Hall County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1247 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 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
1247 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABriscoe35 min
May 15, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAChildress35 min
May 15, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler47 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.