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Freeze Warning 8, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at May 4, 2013, 2:39 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 5, 2013, 12:00 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 4, 2013, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 5, 2013, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 5, 2013, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 2249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:40 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | AMA | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 6 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2013Freeze Warnings in Oklahoma, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013
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.