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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Dec 15, 2014, 1:28 PM CST for 9 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2014, 1:28 PM CST (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
935 WWUS74 KAMA 151928 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 128 PM CST MON DEC 15 2014 OKZ002-003-TXZ003>005-008>010-013>015-160000- /O.NEW.KAMA.WI.Y.0021.141215T1928Z-141216T0000Z/ TEXAS-BEAVER-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS- HEMPHILL-CARSON-GRAY-WHEELER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GUYMON...BEAVER...FORGAN...SPEARMAN... GRUVER...PERRYTON...BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...BORGER...MIAMI... CANADIAN...PANHANDLE...WHITE DEER...PAMPA...SHAMROCK...WHEELER 128 PM CST MON DEC 15 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * EVENT...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...THESE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LOOSE OR LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS...INCLUDING HOLIDAY DECORATIONS...MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CLK/CE/RB
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.