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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2016, 3:18 PM CDT for Moore County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 27, 2016, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Moore County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 58 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
- 389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 21 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 6:05 PM CDT, 21 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 3:42 PM CDT, 23 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 342 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-271100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 342 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...HOWEVER HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES REMAIN IN THE FORECAST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR THE ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. WHILE A FEW STORM MAY BECOME STRONG...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 27, 12:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 28 min |
| Jul 27, 1:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Deaf Smith | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Ochiltree | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 5:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Ochiltree | 4 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Hansford | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 68 min |
| Jul 27, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Texas | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 6:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 25 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.