Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Sep 2, 2008, 11:22 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2008, 11:22 AM CDT (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2008, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KAMA 021622 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1122 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE... .A COLD FRONT THAT PUSHED THROUGH EARLIER THIS MORNING AND THE INCREASING PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND THE FRONT HAS RESULTED IN GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS. TXZ001-002-006-007-030000- /O.NEW.KAMA.WI.Y.0013.080902T1622Z-080903T0000Z/ DALLAM-SHERMAN-HARTLEY-MOORE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DALHART...STRATFORD...HARTLEY... CHANNING...DUMAS 1122 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT THAT PUSHED THROUGH EARLIER THIS MORNING WINDS IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ARE EXPECTED TO BE 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ SJOHNSON
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KAMA 022025 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 325 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED... .PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS DIMINISHED...AS A RESULT WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO SUBSIDE. TXZ001-002-006-007-022130- /O.CAN.KAMA.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-080903T0000Z/ DALLAM-SHERMAN-HARTLEY-MOORE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DALHART...STRATFORD...HARTLEY... CHANNING...DUMAS 325 PM CDT TUE SEP 2 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. WINDS ACROSS THE REGION HAVE BEGUN TO SUBSIDE...AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THUS THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$ SJOHNSON
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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.