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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2016, 3:16 PM CDT for Armstrong County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 30, 2016, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2016, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Armstrong County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 39 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
- 255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jun 30, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:26 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 226 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2016 TXZ018-302015- ARMSTRONG TX- 226 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL ARMSTRONG COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM CDT... AT 225 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAUDE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYSIDE AND GOODNIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3477 10159 3509 10154 3508 10116 3478 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 234DEG 41KT 3502 10149 ANDRADE
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 316 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2016 TXZ018-302100- ARMSTRONG TX- 316 PM CDT THU JUN 30 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ARMSTRONG COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT... AT 316 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF WAYSIDE...OR 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAUDE...MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYSIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3502 10162 3507 10130 3475 10125 3475 10163 TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 062DEG 11KT 3488 10155 ANDRADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 10:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 11:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford, Sherman | 69 min |
| Jun 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 28 min |
| Jun 30, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Donley | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 5:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 16 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 25 min |
| Jun 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Potter, Randall | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 9:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 54 min |
| Jun 30, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 59 min |
| Jun 30, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 62 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.