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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 10:21 PM CDT for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 11, 1997, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collingsworth County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
380 WFUS1 KAMA 120321 RRA TORAMA TXC087-120400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1021 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ...SOUTHERN COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY SHERIFF/S OFFICE OUT OF COLLINGWORTH COUNTY REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WELLINGTON. THIS TORNADIC STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDINGS. AS A LAST RESORT... FIND A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.