Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 10:34 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 17, 1996, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1996, 11:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hutchinson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 11:29 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Pringle, TX | |
| Sep 17, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Pringle, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 2692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
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 Sep 17, 8:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 8:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 820 PM CDT TUE SEP 17 1996 TROUGH/CONVERGENCE LINE ASSOCIATED WITH OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO STEADILY PUSH WEST ACROSS THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. CONVECTION WHICH FIRED ALONG THIS BOUNDARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON HAS INCREASED IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. NOT MUCH CHANGE NEEDED IN THIS EVENING FORECAST EXCEPT TWEAKING OF PRECIP WORDING FROM CONDITIONAL TO AREAL COVERAGE. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. HOLSENBECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham, Potter | 59 min |
| Sep 17, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Sep 17, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 61 min |
| Sep 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 59 min |
| Sep 17, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 61 min |
| Sep 17, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson | 61 min |
| Sep 17, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 12:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 62 min |
| Sep 18, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 66 min |
| Sep 18, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 31 min |
| Sep 18, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 54 min |
| Sep 18, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hansford | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.