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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2013, 5:06 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 8, 2013, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2013, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Armstrong County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 323 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-091145- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 323 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS OF HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...STRONG WINDS TO 70 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS THROUGH THIS PERIOD COULD BE SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARDS OF HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...STRONG WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. THE BIGGEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS IS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS MONDAY...TUESDAY...AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT AND AGAIN EARLY NEXT WEEK. JOHNSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 3:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 506 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 TXZ018-019-082230- ARMSTRONG TX-DONLEY TX- 506 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN ARMSTRONG AND WESTERN DONLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 504 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF GOODNIGHT...OR 18 MILES WEST OF CLARENDON...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GOODNIGHT... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. 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 3515 10123 3508 10089 3479 10109 3486 10133 TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 201DEG 15KT 3489 10119 KB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Oldham | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Moore | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 9:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 11:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hartley | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 3:25 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 60 min |
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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.