Alert archive / Texas / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 21, 2016, 4:20 AM CST for 7 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 21, 2016, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2016, 4:20 AM CST (10:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2016, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2016, 2:18 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
002 WWUS74 KAMA 211020 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 420 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 TXZ001-006-007-011-012-016-017-212200- /O.NEW.KAMA.WI.Y.0001.160121T1400Z-160121T2200Z/ DALLAM-HARTLEY-MOORE-OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DALHART...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... VEGA...AMARILLO...HEREFORD...CANYON 420 AM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. * TIMING...BETWEEN 8 AM AND 4 PM TODAY. * WINDS...NORTH WINDS OF 35 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS...LIGHT WEIGHT ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ADEQUATELY SECURED WILL BE DISPLACED. STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING MORE DIFFICULT ON EAST-WEST ROADWAYS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ COCKRELL
1 follow-up statement
373 WWUS74 KAMA 212018 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 218 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 TXZ001-006-007-011-012-016-017-212130- /O.CAN.KAMA.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-160121T2200Z/ DALLAM-HARTLEY-MOORE-OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DALHART...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... VEGA...AMARILLO...HEREFORD...CANYON 218 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE STRONGEST WINDS OCCURRED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. WIND SPEEDS CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND WILL BE BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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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.