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Dust Storm Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this dust storm warning at Mar 18, 2014, 3:19 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 18, 2014, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2014, 11:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 2632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dust storm 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 dust storm warning went out at Mar 18, 12:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 12:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 4:07 AM CDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 407 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-182100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 407 AM CDT TUE MAR 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWESTERLY WINDS SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH WILL IMPACT THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AS WELL AS THE NORTHERN AND EAST-CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE TODAY. THESE WINDS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST. IN ADDITION...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER MAY AGAIN DEVELOP THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. AREA FIRE MANAGERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD EXPECT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER TODAY OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... AND ALSO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ON THURSDAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 4:16 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Oldham, Potter and 1 more | 16 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:19 AM CDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:01 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
Nearby
Dust Storm Warnings in Texas, 2014Dust Storm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2014Every dust storm warning in 2014
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.