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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 15, 2016Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this high wind warning at Jun 15, 2016, 7:57 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2016, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

674 
WWUS74 KAMA 160057
NPWAMA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
757 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

TXZ011-016-160200-
/O.NEW.KAMA.HW.W.0004.160616T0057Z-160616T0200Z/
OLDHAM-DEAF SMITH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VEGA...HEREFORD
757 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* EVENT...GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH WITH AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING
  NORTHWEST

* TIMING...UNTIL 9 PM CDT

* IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

243 
WWUS74 KAMA 160155
NPWAMA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
855 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

TXZ011-016-160300-
/O.EXP.KAMA.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160616T0200Z/
OLDHAM-DEAF SMITH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VEGA...HEREFORD
855 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2016

...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS HAS ENDED.

$$

JC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson	50 min
Jun 16, 5:44 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	AMA	Randall	13 hr
Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Randall	27 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.