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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 14, 1997Moore County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1997, 4:28 PM CDT for Moore 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: Jun 14, 1997, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Moore County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
Jun 14, 4:34 PM CDT	Hail 1	Four Way, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

423 
WFUS1 KAMA 142129 RRA
TORAMA
TXC341-142230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
428 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE
 
   ...MOORE COUNTY
 
AT 426 PM CDT...SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUMAS
MOVING NORTHEAST. THIS TORNADIC STORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DUMAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 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.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley	49 min
Jun 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hartley	37 min
Jun 14, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Moore	44 min
Jun 14, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Moore	3 hr
Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	65 min
Jun 14, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	55 min
Jun 14, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore	61 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson	61 min
Jun 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	65 min
Jun 14, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	55 min
Jun 14, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Jun 14, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	57 min
Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Hutchinson	3 hr

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.