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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 30, 1996Potter County, Randall County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT for Potter County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: May 30, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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
May 30, 10:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 May 30, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	69 min
May 30, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Oldham	55 min
May 31, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	58 min
May 31, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	61 min
May 31, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Oldham	50 min
May 31, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore	59 min
May 31, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	68 min
May 31, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	63 min
May 31, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong	68 min
May 31, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Sherman	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.