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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 8, 2013Dallam County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2013, 4:13 PM CDT for Dallam County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 8, 2013, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2013, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 287 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Jun 8, 12:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:39 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
309 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013

OKZ002-TXZ002-082115-
SHERMAN TX-TEXAS OK-
309 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN AND
SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF EVA...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF
ELKHART...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TEXHOMA...            EVA...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3683 10184 3648 10162 3634 10162 3633 10192
      3679 10203
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 338DEG 24KT 3670 10191

JACKSON

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
413 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013

TXZ001-006-082215-
DALLAM TX-HARTLEY TX-
413 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN HARTLEY AND EASTERN
DALLAM COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 412 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF DALHART...MOVING SOUTH AT 30
MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DALHART...            HARTLEY...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS... AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3639 10238 3605 10216 3581 10216 3578 10257
      3628 10267
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 338DEG 27KT 3621 10251

JACKSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	38 min
Jun 7, 7:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman	3 hr
Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	63 min
Jun 7, 7:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr
Jun 7, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	66 min
Jun 7, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	57 min
Jun 7, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	59 min
Jun 7, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Roberts	54 min
Jun 7, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Sherman	64 min
Jun 7, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	63 min
Jun 7, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	29 min
Jun 7, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	30 min
Jun 7, 10:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr
Jun 7, 10:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	110 min
Jun 7, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson, Potter, Randall	30 min
Jun 7, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	31 min
Jun 8, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	66 min
Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	52 min
Jun 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	51 min
Jun 8, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	41 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	57 min
Jun 8, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	62 min

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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.