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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2012, 4:38 AM CST for 5 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 23, 2012, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2012, 4:38 AM CST (10:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2012, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2012, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:44 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 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 4096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
966 WWUS74 KAMA 231038 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 438 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 OKZ002-003-TXZ003>005-009-010-232000- /O.NEW.KAMA.WI.Y.0005.120223T1600Z-120224T0100Z/ TEXAS-BEAVER-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GUYMON...BEAVER...FORGAN...SPEARMAN... GRUVER...PERRYTON...BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...MIAMI...CANADIAN 438 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * EVENT...NORTH WINDS AT 35 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL BE COMMON ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE * TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS WILL BLOW ABOUT LIGHT WEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. BLOWING DUST MAY ALSO LOWER VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ GOEHRING
1 follow-up statement
884 WWUS74 KAMA 231634 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1034 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 OKZ002-003-TXZ003>005-009-010-240100- /O.CON.KAMA.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-120224T0100Z/ TEXAS-BEAVER-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GUYMON...BEAVER...FORGAN...SPEARMAN... GRUVER...PERRYTON...BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...MIAMI...CANADIAN 1034 AM CST THU FEB 23 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. * EVENT...NORTH WINDS AT 35 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE * TIMING...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THESE WINDS CAN BLOW AROUND LIGHT WEIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND TRASH CANS. BLOWING DUST MAY ALSO LOWER VISIBILITIES AT TIMES...CREATING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CLK
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.