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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this high wind watch at Nov 4, 2008, 3:22 PM CST for 17 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Nov 5, 2008, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 4, 2008, 3:22 PM CST (21:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 5, 2008, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2008, 3:50 AM CST
- In force
- 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 21:19 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 4, 2:50 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 2:50 PM CST, 32 minutes before
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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.