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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 3, 1996Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 1:26 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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
Jun 3, 1996, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 2:23 PM CDTHail 1Griggs, OK
Jun 3, 2:23 PM CDTHail 1Griggs, OK
Jun 3, 2:23 PM CDTHail 0.75Griggs, OK

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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1410 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Jun 3, 10:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 10:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:33 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-040300-

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
100 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA
AND TEXAS PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ABUNDANT LOW-LEVEL ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE REMAINS IN PLACE OVER
PANHANDLES.  AS DAYTIME HEATING CONTINUES...THIS WILL LEAD TO FURTHER
DESTABILIZATION OF AN ALREADY UNSTABLE AIRMASS.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
ACROSS THE AREA.  AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NORTHEAST OF DALHART AND BORGER
WILL BECOME MORE PRONOUNCED THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL ACT AS A FOCUS
FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.  ADDITIONAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MAY
BECOME EVIDENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND THESE WOULD ALSO BE
FAVORED AREAS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.  THE MAIN SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  THE
TURNING OF THE WIND WITH HEIGHT SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS THE POTENTIAL
FOR ISOLATED TORNADO DEVELOPMENT.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS ACROSS THE
PANHANDLES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND
BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

COCKRELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham58 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith62 min
Jun 2, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall25 min
Jun 3, 7:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham33 min
Jun 3, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson63 min
Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore60 min
Jun 3, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson56 min
Jun 3, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson, Hutchinson, Potter68 min
Jun 3, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall69 min
Jun 3, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong57 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong47 min
Jun 3, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.