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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 7:21 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Hutchinson County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
331
WWUS84 KAMA 060021
SPSAMA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
721 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
TXZ008-013-060100-
CARSON TX-HUTCHINSON TX-
721 PM CDT FRI AUG 5 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CARSON AND
SOUTHEASTERN HUTCHINSON COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...
AT 721 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES WEST OF SKELLYTOWN...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BORGER...MOVING
NORTH AT 20 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BORGER AND SKELLYTOWN.
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 3548 10146 3585 10141 3581 10109 3579 10109
3543 10118
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 188DEG 16KT 3556 10130
$$
LFMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Gray | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 62 min |
| Aug 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Dallam | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Sherman | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 11:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 3 hr |
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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.