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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 31, 200717 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 31, 2007, 3:57 AM CDT for 17 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 31, 2007, 4:21 AM CDT. It was in force for 29 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 31, 2007, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 31, 2007, 4:21 AM CDT
Expired
Nov 1, 2007, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
29 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 257 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-10-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2007-10-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 284 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 30, 6:35 PM CDT, 9 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 6:35 PM CDT, 9 hours 22 minutes before
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Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2007Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2007Every freeze warning in 2007

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.