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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 7, 2014Armstrong County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 4:47 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 7, 2014, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2014, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Armstrong County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 7, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 3:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
341 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-080845-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
341 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLES.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. NO
WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE
TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN
ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NO
WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:47 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
447 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

TXZ018-072230-
ARMSTRONG TX-
447 PM CDT THU AUG 7 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ARMSTRONG COUNTY
UNTIL 530 PM CDT...

AT 447 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF GOODNIGHT...OR 16 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CLARENDON...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

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

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARMSTRONG COUNTY.

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

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.

LAT...LON 3497 10130 3501 10109 3475 10109 3474 10110
      3474 10130
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 177DEG 9KT 3485 10116

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 5:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	52 min
Aug 7, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	42 min
Aug 7, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	44 min
Aug 7, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	41 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.