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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 4:22 PM CDT for Potter County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 5, 2016, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Potter County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 5, 12:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 12:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:22 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 422 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 TXZ012-017-052200- POTTER TX-RANDALL TX- 422 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL RANDALL AND SOUTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 421 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMARILLO...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AMARILLO AND MESCALERO PARK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. && LAT...LON 3508 10175 3508 10197 3539 10202 3538 10169 TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 180DEG 16KT 3517 10186 LFM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Armstrong | 41 min |
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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.