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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 1, 2014, 3:30 PM CST for 20 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Mar 2, 2014, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2014, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2014, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2014, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
All 23 counties
Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 367 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
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Mar 1, 11:48 AM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 11:48 AM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 1, 3:29 PM CST, 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 329 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-020930- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 329 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE ARE EXPECTED TO END BY 6 PM. A WINTRY MIX OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD REMAIN LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. ANY SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS TONIGHT SHOULD REMAIN GENERALLY LESS THAN ONE INCH. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES BEGINNING AT 6 PM THIS EVENING. WIND CHILL VALUES ARE FORECAST TO FALL TO BETWEEN 5 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AND 10 DEGREES BELOW ZERO LATE TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT BEGINNING MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE WINTRY MIX OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND LIGHT SNOW WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED...WITH THE HIGHEST TOTALS FORECAST TO BE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ANY ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD REMAIN LESS THAN FIVE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM SUNDAY. WIND CHILL VALUES ARE FORECAST TO BE BETWEEN 5 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AND 10 DEGREES BELOW ZERO SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY SNOWFALL AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO. AREA FIRE MANAGERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 5:58 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:54 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Donley, Gray, Hartley and 3 more | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.