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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 5, 2015Hartley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 5, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT for Hartley County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: May 5, 2015, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Hartley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 5, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 1:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 3:03 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
303 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-061100-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
303 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. SOME OF THE STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE THROUGH THIS EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO EXPECTED...WHICH
COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY NIGHT... MAINLY ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES.
STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
THURSDAY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS.
HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH
FLOODING...PARTICULARLY ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND THEN
AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

SCHNEIDER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 3:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
316 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015

TXZ006-011-052045-
HARTLEY TX-OLDHAM TX-
316 PM CDT TUE MAY 5 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN OLDHAM AND
SOUTHWESTERN HARTLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT...

AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF NARA VISA...MOVING NORTH AT 20
MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ROMERO...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS... AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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 3578 10304 3575 10279 3555 10286 3557 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 187DEG 17KT 3561 10294

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Hutchinson	3 hr
May 5, 3:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray, Roberts	6 hr
May 5, 8:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Gray, Roberts	3 hr
May 5, 9:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 5, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley	25 min
May 5, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	47 min
May 5, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	25 min
May 5, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	42 min
May 5, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	54 min
May 5, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	55 min
May 5, 6:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Moore	4 hr
May 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter and 2 more	64 min

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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.