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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 6:38 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1996, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Potter County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Amarillo, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 1181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Jun 24, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 310 PM CDT MON JUN 24 1996 CONVECTION FIRING ACRS THE TX/OK PNHDLS ATTM. DEW POINTS ARE IN THE UPR 50S TO MID 60S MOST AREAS WITH SFC TEMPS IN THE 90S. THE MODIFIED AMA 12Z SOUNDING WITH THESE FIGURES INDICATES A CAPE AROUND 3500 J/KG...SO AMS IS SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE. EXPECT TSTMS TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING BUT BELIEVE ACTIVITY SHOULD END BEFORE MIDNIGHT AS AMS STABILIZES AND SINCE NO SHRTWV ENERGY EXPECTED AFT THAT POINT. PRECIPITABLE WATER CONTENT IS ABOUT 1 INCH... WHICH IS NOT REALLY HIGH. HWVR...FLO ALOFT IS WEAK SO SLOW STORMS MOVEMENT COULD RESULT IN ISOL HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL NOT MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN ZONE FCST AT THIS POINT SINCE IT SHOULD BE ISOL. WILL USE THE SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR THIS INSTEAD. HEIGHTS WILL CONT RISE OVR THE AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. HWVR...LO LVL FLO REMAINS S TO SE AND SHOULD SUSTAIN DEW POINTS IN THE 50S AND 60S. WITH DAYTIME HEAT...AMS WILL AGAIN BECOME UNSTABLE TUE AND WED AFTN AND EVES. THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT THO WILL BE INCRG CAP STRENGTH AND ANY SUBSIDENCE UNDER THE BLDG RDG. FOR THIS REASON...WILL ONLY FCST A SLIGHT CHC OF TSTMS. NGM H8 FCSTD TEMPS COOLER THAN ETA AND AVN. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE COOLER NGM-MOS. UNLESS SGFNT CLOUD COVER DVLPS EARLY ENUF IN THE DAY ON TUE AND WED...BLV PERSISTENCE WILL PREVAIL AND THE WARMER AVN GUIDANCE WILL VERIFY BETTER. THANKS LBB/OUN/DDC FOR THE COORDINATION. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. SP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:38 PM CDT, 6 hours before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter | 69 min |
| Jun 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 66 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.