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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Amarillo, TX

July 30, 1996Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cimarron County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1327 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.