Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 60, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 1995, 2:16 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 2:37 PM MDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 5, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 minute before
FPUS3 KAMA 052015 AFDAMA TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 315 PM CDT SAT AUG 5 1995 SHRTWV CONTS TO MOV OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. CONVECTION CURRENTLY MOVING OUT OF NE NM AND SE CO AND INTO THE NW PNHDLS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD MAINTAIN AN ESE MOVEMENT ACROSS THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE FA THIS EVENING. THIS AREA REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE WITH ADAP CHARTS SHOWING LI/S TO MINUS 8 ATTM. SHTWV FCST TO MOVE ESE AND BRUSH THE NRN PNHDLS WHICH WILL HELP TO KEEP THINGS GOING. LATEST SELS UPDATE HAS BROUGHT THE SLIGHT RISK AREA BACK INTO THE NE OK PNHDL AND WILL GO AHEAD AND MENTION THE THREAT OF SVR TONIGHT ACROSS THE N. CHC POPS IN STORE ACROSS THE N WITH SLIGHT CHC NUMBERS ACROSS THE S. TEND TO FAVOR THE ETA MODEL AGAIN...AS IT HAS INITIALIZED QUITE WELL AND HAS BEEN THE BETTER MODEL OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. H5 RDG BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND COMBINES WITH A SFC TROF MOVING OFF THE ROCKIES TO BRING EVEN WARMER WEATHER TO THE REGION. MODELS CONT TO FCST DECENT INSTABILITIES ON SUNDAY...HOWEVER MID LEVEL TEMPS ARE FCST TO INCREASE WHICH MAY HOLD THINGS BACK...SO WILL HOLD OFF ON POPS ATTM. WILL STICK CLOSER TO FAN GUIDANCE NUMBERS THROUGH THIS PACKAGE ON TEMPS AND BUMP POPS TONIGHT MOST ZONES. PRELIM NUMBERS... AMA 66 94 68 97 200 DHT 64 95 66 97 40- .AMA...NONE. .OK...NONE. COLTON
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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.