Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 2, 1999, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hartley County, TX
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 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 2, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 310 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 SEVERAL FEATURES TO WATCH IN THE SHORT TERM. THE FIRST IS A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO THIS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE CLOSER AND STRENGTH THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. THE SECOND IS A DRYLINE BECOMING BETTER DEFINED ACROSS EASTERN NM WHICH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE PANHANDLES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE THIRD IS A WARM FRONT CURRENTLY MOVING UP ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. THESE BOUNDARIES SHOULD ACT TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION DURING THE FIRST PD. IN ADDITION...A SHORT WAVE MOVES CLOSE ENOUGH TO HELP SUSTAIN ANY THUNDERSTORM INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. CURRENTLY SOME HIGHER CLOUDS HAVE MOVED IN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WHICH HAS SLOWED DAYTIME HEATING. THIS MAY CAUSE A DELAY IN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTHERN CWA. BUT AGREE WITH SPC THAT TOR WW MAY STILL BE NEED IN PORTIONS OF FA LATER THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WX MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES. FRIDAY NEXT CUT OFF LOW IS PUSH INTO AZ KEEPING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FA MAINLY WESTERN SECTIONS. IN THE EXTENDED...SATURDAY THE CUT OFF LOW OPENS AND MOVES INTO CENTRAL PLAINS FOR A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CWA. SUNDAY WE SEEM TO GET A BREAK IN THE CONVECTION AS THE WEAKENING SYSTEM MOVES NORTHEAST OF AREA WITH THE MAIN TROUGH CONTINUING OVER THE WESTERN US. BUT AS TROUGH THE GET MORE ESTABLISHED IT WILL START THROWING OUT PIECES ENERGY WHICH WILL GIVE US THE POSSIBILITY FOR CONVECTION AGAIN ON MONDAY. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. N. DIPASQUALE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.