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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2016, 10:58 AM CST for 11 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 18, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2016, 10:58 AM CST (16:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
272 WWUS74 KAMA 181658 NPWAMA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1058 AM CST THU FEB 18 2016 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>011-190000- /O.NEW.KAMA.WI.Y.0003.160218T1800Z-160219T0000Z/ CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOISE CITY...KEYES...GUYMON...BEAVER... FORGAN...DALHART...STRATFORD...SPEARMAN...GRUVER...PERRYTON... BOOKER...HIGGINS...FOLLETT...HARTLEY...CHANNING...DUMAS... BORGER...MIAMI...CANADIAN...VEGA 1058 AM CST THU FEB 18 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * EVENT...WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 6 PM. * IMPACTS...LIGHT WEIGHT ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ADEQUATELY SECURED WILL BE DISPLACED. STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING MORE DIFFICULT ON NORTH-SOUTH 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. && $$
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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.