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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 30 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 2, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Texas County, OK
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Aug 2, 12:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 12:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 229 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 OKZ003-022000- BEAVER OK- 229 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL BEAVER COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 229 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARDESTY...OR 20 MILES EAST OF GUYMON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL BEAVER COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3686 10048 3700 10058 3700 10012 TIME...MOT...LOC 1929Z 264DEG 13KT 3665 10112 BEAT
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 230 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 OKZ002-022000- TEXAS OK- 230 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM CDT... AT 230 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARDESTY...OR 20 MILES EAST OF GUYMON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HARDESTY AND ADAMS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 3652 10124 3671 10128 3678 10098 3652 10098 TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 264DEG 13KT 3665 10111 BEAT
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, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Cimarron | 52 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, 3:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Beaver | 45 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.