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Dust Storm Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

April 3, 20146 counties in Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this dust storm warning at Apr 3, 2014, 2:57 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 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: Apr 3, 2014, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 3611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 3, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 2:27 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 10:15 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 4 more	10 hr
Apr 3, 12:38 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 4 more	8 hr
Apr 3, 1:31 PM CDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 4 more	4 hr
Apr 3, 2:57 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:05 PM CDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 4 more	3 hr

Nearby

Dust Storm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every 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.