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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 17, 1995Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 4:31 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Texas County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 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 17, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
300 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

SVR WX BUSTED OUT AGAIN THIS AFTN...WHICH PUT ME WAY BEHIND THE 8
BALL AGAIN. BASICALLY...WILL CONSIDER WRAPARAOUND PRECIP FOR NRN ZNS
TNGT AS UPPER LOW TRACKS EWD OUT OF REGION LATE TNGT. AFTER TNGT...
LOOKS LIKE THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS SHOULD BE QUIET WX-WISE AS SFC HIGH
BUILDS INTO PNHDLS. EXTENDED PERIODS SUGGEST SOME THREAT OF TSTMSR
AND WILL PROBABLY ADD A MENTION IN THE AFP. WILL WORK WITH FWC/FAN
TEMPS.

.AMA...WIND ADVISORY THIS EVENING FOR ZONES 011>020.
.OK...NONE.

ANDRADE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 12:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>026-180545-

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1249 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT
ACROS$S THE AREA. DRIER AIR HAS MOVED INTO THE AREA WHICH
MAKE CONDITIONS UNFAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON
OR TONIGHT.

RS

Special weather statement, May 17, 4:18 PM CDT, 13 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 16, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	67 min
May 16, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	41 min
May 17, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Parmer	57 min
May 17, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Castro	65 min
May 17, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	65 min
May 17, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	57 min
May 17, 2:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	64 min
May 17, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	55 min
May 17, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	67 min
May 17, 2:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Armstrong	42 min
May 17, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall, Swisher	54 min
May 17, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	52 min
May 17, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	25 min
May 17, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	29 min
May 16, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	50 min
May 17, 2:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	33 min
May 17, 3:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	11 min
May 17, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	68 min
May 17, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Roosevelt	51 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.