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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this high wind watch at Dec 22, 2014, 3:59 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Dec 23, 2014, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2014, 3:59 PM CST (21:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2014, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2014, 4:07 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 1329 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 22, 3:59 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 3:59 PM CST, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 22, 3:59 PM CST, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 359 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-231215- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 359 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW MAY DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES TONIGHT. MOST SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ONE INCH AT THIS TIME THOUGH PORTIONS OF DEAF SMITH COUNTY COULD SEE AROUND AN INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NORTH WINDS IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE WITH GUSTS ABOVE 50 MPH ARE LIKELY TUESDAY ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE NOTED IN THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES...WHERE GUSTS COULD REACH 60 MPH AND A HIGH WIND WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. ELSEWHERE...A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME BUT SNOWFALL REPORTS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 22, 3:59 PM CST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 359 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 OKZ001-002-TXZ001>003-006>008-011>013-017-018-230900- CIMARRON-TEXAS-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON- OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOISE CITY...KEYES...GUYMON...DALHART... STRATFORD...SPEARMAN...GRUVER...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... BORGER...VEGA...AMARILLO...PANHANDLE...WHITE DEER...CANYON... CLAUDE 359 PM CST MON DEC 22 2014 ...LIGHT SNOW POSSIBLE TONIGHT OVER THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES... SHOWERS WILL INCREASE OVER PORTIONS OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES THIS EVENING. LIGHT RAIN WILL MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO LIGHT SNOW OVER THE WESTERN PANHANDLES BY MID EVENING...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF SNOWFALL OVER THE WESTERN PANHANDLES. SOME AREAS OF THE WESTERN PANHANDLES MAY SEE A DUSTING OF SNOW WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE INCH POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE...WHERE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT. THE THREAT OF SNOW WILL END BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...BUT STRONG NORTH WINDS ON TUESDAY WILL BECOME SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. AREA RESIDENTS AND THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES SHOULD STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE AT: WWW.WEATHER.GOV/AMA... ...OR BY FOLLOWING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. LINDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 3:59 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | AMA | Deaf Smith | 11 hr |
Nearby
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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.