Alert archive / Texas / Wind Chill Warnings in 2011
Wind Chill Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind chill warning at Feb 9, 2011, 7:02 AM CST for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2011, 7:02 AM CST (13:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
All 23 counties
Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley 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, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 7:12 AM CST | SNOW 6 | Borger, TX | |
| Feb 9, 7:30 AM CST | SNOW 3.5 | Sunray, TX | |
| Feb 9, 7:44 AM CST | SNOW 5 | 1 W Sanford, TX | |
| Feb 9, 9:25 AM CST | SNOW 7.5 | Panhandle, TX | |
| Feb 9, 10:53 AM CST | SNOW 2 | 8 Ssw Romero, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
726 WWUS44 KAMA 091302 WSWAMA URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 702 AM CST WED FEB 9 2011 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-091800- /O.CAN.KAMA.WS.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110209T1800Z/ /O.NEW.KAMA.WC.W.0002.110209T1302Z-110209T1800Z/ CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOISE CITY...KEYES...GUYMON...BEAVER... FORGAN...DALHART...STRATFORD...SPEARMAN...GRUVER...PERRYTON... BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... BORGER...MIAMI...CANADIAN...VEGA...AMARILLO...PANHANDLE... WHITE DEER...PAMPA...SHAMROCK...WHEELER...HEREFORD...CANYON... CLAUDE...CLARENDON...WELLINGTON 702 AM CST WED FEB 9 2011 ...WIND CHILL WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... ...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THIS SAME AREA. * TIMING: VERY COLD AIR WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS MORNING. NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL DECREASE TO 10 TO 15 MPH BY THIS AFTERNOON. * MAIN IMPACT: THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 5 BELOW TO 5 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO AND BREEZY NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS WIND CHILL VALUES OF 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL WARNING MEANS THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA OR DEATH IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. && $$ CLK
1 follow-up statement
165 WWUS44 KAMA 091754 WSWAMA URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1154 AM CST WED FEB 9 2011 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-091900- /O.EXP.KAMA.WC.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110209T1800Z/ CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOISE CITY...KEYES...GUYMON...BEAVER... FORGAN...DALHART...STRATFORD...SPEARMAN...GRUVER...PERRYTON... BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... BORGER...MIAMI...CANADIAN...VEGA...AMARILLO...PANHANDLE... WHITE DEER...PAMPA...SHAMROCK...WHEELER...HEREFORD...CANYON... CLAUDE...CLARENDON...WELLINGTON 1154 AM CST WED FEB 9 2011 ...WIND CHILL WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY... THE WIND CHILL WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT NOON CST TODAY FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED AND TEMPERATURES ARE GENERALLY NEAR OR ABOVE 10 DEGREES. HOWEVER...FOR MUCH OF THE DAY WIND CHILL VALUES WILL STAY NEAR ZERO DEGREES. $$ JOHNSON
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.