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Blowing Dust Advisory 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

December 19, 20126 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this blowing dust advisory at Dec 19, 2012, 1:15 PM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 19, 2012, 1:15 PM CST (19:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 19, 2012, 8:51 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust advisory 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Dec 18, 5:59 PM CST, 19 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 5:59 PM CST, 19 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 2:37 PM CST, 22 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 19, 4:33 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 4 more	7 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Texas, 2012 Every blowing dust advisory in 2012

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.