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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 2, 1995Parmer County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Parmer County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAMA 030013
TORAMA
TXC369-030045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
712 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...NORTHERN PARMER COUNTY
 
AT 711 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN
PARMER COUNTY IS MAINTAINING ITS STRENGTH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF
PRODUCING TORNADOS.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO.  SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDINGS.  AS A LAST RESORT...
FIND A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOURJ
HANDS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	44 min
Jun 2, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Castro	50 min
Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Swisher	47 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	62 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	62 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	65 min
Jun 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Castro	51 min
Jun 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Swisher	46 min
Jun 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Randall	45 min
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	68 min
Jun 2, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Swisher	65 min
Jun 2, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham, Potter	58 min
Jun 2, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Randall	59 min
Jun 2, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Swisher	65 min
Jun 2, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	60 min
Jun 3, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	52 min
Jun 3, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	46 min
Jun 3, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Potter	48 min
Jun 3, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	67 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hall	59 min
Jun 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	65 min
Jun 3, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hall	66 min
Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Childress	62 min
Jun 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe	59 min
Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	60 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Briscoe, Childress, Hall	62 min
Jun 3, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Childress	55 min
Jun 3, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	64 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.