Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1998, 1:27 AM CDT for Donley County, Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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
- May 15, 1998, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1998, 2:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:42 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Howardwick, TX | |
| May 15, 2:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Mc Lean, TX | |
| May 15, 2:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 75 | Mc Lean, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 63 min |
| May 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 32 min |
| May 14, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 29 min |
| May 15, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 61 min |
| May 15, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Hemphill, Wheeler | 62 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.