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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 1, 2016Cimarron County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 7:23 PM CDT for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 52 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 1, 2016, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Cimarron County, OK

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 277 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: 1770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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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 1, 6:35 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 6:35 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 4:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
449 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-021000-
CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB-
HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON-
GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH-
449 PM CDT MON AUG 1 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS
PANHANDLES THIS EVENING. A FEW STRONG STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND STRONG WIND GUSTS WHICH GENERALLY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES
THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH BEST CHANCES FOR STORMS BEING ACROSS THE
WESTERN PANHANDLES MOST DAYS. MOST STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE
LEVELS THIS WEEK...HOWEVER A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE.
MAIN THREAT FROM STRONGER STORMS WILL BE FROM STRONG WIND GUSTS AND
HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

MJG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 7:04 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 7:23 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	43 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	39 min
Aug 2, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Sherman	48 min
Aug 2, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	44 min
Aug 2, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	41 min
Aug 1, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	41 min
Aug 1, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	47 min
Aug 1, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	49 min
Aug 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	31 min
Aug 2, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	30 min
Aug 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	47 min
Aug 2, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Beaver	45 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Oklahoma, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.