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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 5, 2016Hutchinson County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 308 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 

$$

LFM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 7:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAGray40 min
Aug 5, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMAGray45 min
Aug 5, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts38 min
Aug 5, 9:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADallam62 min
Aug 5, 10:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMADallam61 min
Aug 5, 11:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementAMASherman30 min
Aug 5, 11:37 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryAMACimarron, Texas3 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.