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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

September 25, 2012Gray County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Sep 25, 2012, 3:02 PM CDT for Gray County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 25, 2012, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Gray County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Sep 25, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 3:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
302 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-261100-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
302 PM CDT TUE SEP 25 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY
ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES. THESE
STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE THROUGH 11 PM...WITH
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 60 MPH BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE PANHANDLES
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE
SEVERE...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY
AND THURSDAY IN THE EASTERN HALF OF THE PANHANDLES. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AND DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

JACKSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:02 PM CDT, 0 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
Sep 25, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	50 min
Sep 25, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Wheeler	65 min
Sep 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	31 min
Sep 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Gray	29 min
Sep 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	61 min
Sep 25, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	48 min
Sep 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	38 min
Sep 25, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	54 min
Sep 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	31 min
Sep 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	35 min
Sep 25, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	39 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.