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Freeze Warning 7, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Nov 14, 2008, 2:57 PM CST for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 14, 2008, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 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
- Nov 14, 2008, 2:57 PM CST (20:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 14, 2008, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2008, 8:58 AM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 14, 2:53 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 2:53 PM CST, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 100 PM CST FRI NOV 14 2008 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-151200- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 100 PM CST FRI NOV 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 6 PM FOR ALL SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES... STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES...INCLUDING THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... WHERE A HARD FREEZE HAS YET TO OCCUR THIS FALL. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR COLLINGSWORTH AND WHEELER COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WIDESPREAD FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY MORNING AND AGAIN SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. COCKRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 5:07 AM CST | Freeze Watch | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 10 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:13 AM CST | Wind Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
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.