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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 8, 2015Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2015, 10:59 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 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 8, 2015, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2015, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Texas County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 6:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
650 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

.AVIATION...
FOR THE 00Z TAFS...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH THE
NEXT 24 HOURS AT ALL TAF SITES. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY IMPACT THE
TAF SITES TONIGHT...WITH HIGHEST CONFIDENCE AT KDHT AND KGUY AT THIS
TIME. LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND LOWER CEILINGS COULD ACCOMPANY ANY
HEAVY STORMS. OTHERWISE...GENERALLY SOUTHERLY WINDS AT KAMA...AND
WINDS BECOMING WESTERLY TO NORTHWESTERLY OVERNIGHT AT KDHT AND KGUY
THROUGH EARLY MORNING HOURS.

NF

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 421 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015/

DISCUSSION...
THE FOCUS OF THE FORECAST REMAINS ON THE MEANDERING HIGH PRESSURE
RIDGE CURRENTLY OVER CENTRAL TEXAS AND SUBTLE SHORTWAVES CIRCULATING
ON THE OUTER PERIPHERY. A SLIGHTLY BETTER DEFINED SHORTWAVE OVER
WESTERN NEW MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ITS NORTHEAST TRACK AND
BRING A ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE BETTER PART OF THE
PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. REGIONAL RADAR
MOSAIC SHOWS THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO FORM ACROSS EASTERN
NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. AS THESE STORMS MOVE INTO THE
WESTERN PANHANDLES WE COULD SEE PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. MODERATE
INSTABILITY IN THE 2000-3000 J/KG RANGE AND MARGINAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR
OF 15 TO 25 KT COULD ALLOW SOME OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME STRONG TO
MARGINALLY SEVERE. THE MAIN HAZARDS WOULD BE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS. THESE STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH LATE TONIGHT.

SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY REMAINS THE PORTION OF THE FORECAST WITH THE
HIGHEST PRECIP CHANCES. THE UPPER RIDGE DIVES FURTHER SOUTH AND
WEAKENS TO ALLOW A WEAK COLD FRONT TO SLIDE THROUGH THE PANHANDLES
LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND INTO MONDAY MORNING. ONCE AGAIN THERE WILL BE A
CHANCE FOR A STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORM DURING THIS PERIOD
HOWEVER, THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE FOR HEAVY RAIN LEADING TO FLOODING.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA
PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE AMOUNTS
COULD RANGE FROM A HALF INCH UP TO AN INCH WITH LOCALLY HIGHER
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. THE MAJORITY OF THIS SHOULD FALL MAINLY BETWEEN
NOON SUNDAY AND MIDNIGHT MONDAY. THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE COULD
SEE AMOUNTS UP TO A HALF AN INCH WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS
POSSIBLE. THE MAJORITY OF THIS RAIN SHOULD FALL MAINLY BETWEEN 6 PM
SUNDAY THROUGH 6 AM MONDAY. THERE COULD BE SOME LINGERING RAIN INTO
MONDAY DAYTIME MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE BUT THE
HEAVIEST AMOUNTS SHOULD BE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...A STRONGER SHORTWAVE IS FORECAST TO
ROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE, AS IT BUILDS BACK TO THE NORTH, TO
BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN TO THE PANHANDLES. THE LATEST
MODELS SHOW THIS ROUND SHOULD MAINLY AFFECT THE NORTHERN TEXAS AND
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. THE GFS IS THE MOST GENEROUS WITH PRECIP
AMOUNTS, 2 TO 3 INCHES WITH THIS ROUND, WHERE AS THE ECMWF HAS A
WIDE SWATH OF AROUND 1 INCHES TOTALS FOR THIS ROUND. AGAIN THE
HEAVIEST AMOUNTS WITH THIS ROUND WOULD BE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS
AS THE LOW LEVEL JET RAMPS UP. HAVE INCREASED QPF AMOUNTS IN THIS
AREA, BUT IF THE TREND CONTINUES A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED
WITH LATER FORECAST PACKAGES.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THE HIGH MOVES BACK OVER US BEFORE
SHIFTING FURTHER WEST. THIS WOULD RETURN THE PANHANDLES BACK TO A
NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME AND ALLOW DISCRETE SHORTWAVES WITHIN THE FLOW
TO SPARK OFF AND ON STORMS.

&&

.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
OK...NONE.

&&

6/18

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
338 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-090845-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
338 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN HALF OF
THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...SMALL
HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN BEING THE MAIN HAZARDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWESTERN TWO-
THIRDS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE MAINLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
EVENING PERIODS EACH DAY EARLY IN THE WEEK. SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE HEAVY RAIN
PRODUCED BY THESE STORMS COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 7:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
706 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

TXZ016-090045-
DEAF SMITH TX-
706 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN DEAF SMITH COUNTY
UNTIL 745 PM CDT...

AT 704 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
BOOTLEG...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRIONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SIMMS AND BOOTLEG.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3482 10304 3515 10283 3490 10234 3475 10259
      3475 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 217DEG 14KT 3476 10287

NF

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 8:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
838 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

OKZ001-TXZ001-002-006-090230-
CIMARRON OK-HARTLEY TX-DALLAM TX-SHERMAN TX-
838 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CIMARRON...NORTH
CENTRAL HARTLEY...EASTERN DALLAM AND WEST CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTIES
UNTIL 930 PM CDT...

AT 837 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
7 MILES NORTH OF DALHART...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DALHART...CONLEN AND WARE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3598 10250 3613 10276 3656 10254 3632 10208
TIME...MOT...LOC 0137Z 219DEG 23KT 3617 10256

NF

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
912 PM CDT SAT AUG 08 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0827 PM     TSTM WND DMG     14 NW DALHART           36.21N 102.69W
08/08/2015                   DALLAM             TX   911 CALL CENTER

            A GRAIN ELEVATOR WAS BLOWN OVER AND BLOCKING HWY 87
            NEAR POLLARD ROAD. FURTHER SOUTH SOME SPRINKLERS WERE
            BLOWN OVER.

&&

EVENT NUMBER AMA1500694

CE

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 10:10 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1010 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

OKZ001-002-TXZ001-002-090400-
TEXAS OK-CIMARRON OK-DALLAM TX-SHERMAN TX-
1010 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS...SOUTHEASTERN
CIMARRON...NORTHEASTERN DALLAM AND NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL
1100 PM CDT...

AT 1010 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
TEXHOMA TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRATFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GUYMON...STRATFORD...GOODWELL...GRIGGS...EVA AND TEXHOMA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3665 10131 3650 10155 3650 10162 3645 10162
      3624 10195 3640 10230 3694 10198
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 227DEG 25KT 3639 10189 3646 10219

NF

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 10:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1059 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

OKZ002-TXZ002-003-090445-
TEXAS OK-HANSFORD TX-SHERMAN TX-
1059 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN HANSFORD AND
NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT...

AT 1058 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF
STRATFORD TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TEXHOMA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GUYMON...GOODWELL...OPTIMA...HARDESTY...HOUGH...EVA AND TEXHOMA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3669 10098 3625 10161 3640 10210 3650 10205
      3650 10203 3654 10203 3695 10183
TIME...MOT...LOC 0358Z 245DEG 25KT 3648 10195 3644 10167

NF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	39 min
Aug 8, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith	43 min
Aug 8, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	52 min
Aug 8, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	52 min
Aug 8, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	50 min
Aug 8, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford	46 min
Aug 9, 2:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
Aug 9, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	29 min
Aug 9, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Armstrong	51 min
Aug 9, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	57 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.