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Fire Weather Watch 21, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 11, 200812 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this fire weather watch at May 11, 2008, 5:20 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 11, 2008, 3:05 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 2008, 5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
In effect from
May 11, 2008, 3:05 PM CDT
Expired
May 12, 2008, 5:12 AM CDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-05-11Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
2900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.