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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX

January 12, 20175 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this ice storm warning at Jan 12, 2017, 4:11 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 13, 2017, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 54 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 2017, 4:11 PM CST (22:11 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 13, 2017, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 15, 2017, 12:00 PM CST
In force
54 hr
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hemphill County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-01-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2017-01-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -105 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this ice storm warning 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 ice storm warning went out at Jan 11, 4:33 PM CST, 23 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 4:33 PM CST, 23 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 12, 4:11 PM CSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryAMAArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Donley, Gray and 8 more3 days

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in Texas, 2017Ice Storm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2017Every ice storm warning in 2017

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.