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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at May 1, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 2, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2013, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2013, 10:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
All 21 counties
Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson 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
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at May 1, 3:54 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 3:54 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 3:53 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 353 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-020900- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 353 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. LIGHT RAIN...LIGHT SLEET...AND LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TONIGHT. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES MAY OCCUR ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLES...WITH LESS THAN ONE INCH ACCUMULATION ELSEWHERE. THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND SNOW MAY RESULT IN BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES. FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EXCEPT PARTS OF THE FAR EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. A FREEZE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT ACROSS THIS AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. LIGHT SNOW MAY CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY MORNING...MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ONE INCH AT THIS TIME. THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND SNOW MAY RESULT IN BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES. FREEZING OR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE EXCEPT PARTS OF THE FAR EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THURSDAY MORNING. A FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING FOR THIS AREA. BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE LIKELY AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. ADDITIONAL FREEZE WATCHES AND WARNINGS MAY BECOME NECESSARY DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:54 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 354 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-020500- 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 354 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2013 ...WINTER PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING... AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TODAY. A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...AND MAY BRING A VARIETY OF PRECIPITATION TO THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. LIGHT RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS EVENING. AS THE COLD AIR CONTINUES TO INVADE THE REGION...THE PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE TO LIGHT SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS LATER THIS EVENING...THEN SPREAD SOUTHEAST TO ENCOMPASS THE REMAINDER OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL HAVE THE GREATEST LIKELIHOOD OF RECEIVING SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW 1 INCH ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. IN ADDITION...STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES... ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. PRECIPITATION IS FORECAST TO END FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY MORNING. THERE REMAINS CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY REGARDING PRECIPITATION TYPE AND AMOUNTS. THEREFORE...YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES... FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN AMARILLO TEXAS.
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.