Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
619 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018

.AVIATION...
Thunderstorms should linger around GUY for the next few hours.
Thunderstorms have moved away from DHT and thunderstorms are not
expected to make it to AMA. Outside of the storms, skies should
remain VFR. Light southerly winds should prevail overnight and
then they will pick up and get gusty by late morning.

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.PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 523 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018/

DISCUSSION...
Showers and tstms have developed once again across the Oklahoma
Panhandle and northwest Texas Panhandle this afternoon in close
proximity to a surface boundary coupled with steep lapse rates
from triple digit temperatures and some low level moisture and
associated atmospheric instability. Due to rather large surface
temperature and dewpoint spreads along with corresponding high
downdraft CAPE, a few storms may become strong to marginally
severe with damaging wind gusts the primary hazard in addition to
locally heavy rainfall with slow storm movement. Have gone with
areal qualifier pops and expanded them a bit further south across
northern zones through the evening hours. Showers and tstms should
eventually dissipate as daytime heating wanes. A near repeat
performance is possible later Friday afternoon and evening across
the OK Panhandle and far northern Texas Panhandle, with slight chc
pops included for this area. In addition, will allow Heat
Advisory and Excessive Heat Warning to expire on schedule at 8 PM
this evening. Another Heat Advisory will likely become necessary
across parts of the area on Friday, and then primarily for the
Palo Duro Canyon on Saturday and Sunday as triple digit
temperatures are expected through the weekend across the region.

Upper level high pressure is progged to situate itself across the
srn high plains Saturday into most of Sunday before retreating
west to around the southwest states and amplifying by early next
week as an upper level trof of low pressure develops over the
eastern United States. Numerical weather models are in good
agreement with the above scenario and were accepted. Precipitation
threat may shut off temporarily Saturday into most of Sunday. The
chance for showers and thunderstorms is then forecast to resume as
early as Sunday night across far nwrn sections and then across the
fcst area Monday thru Thursday of next week as a northwest flow
aloft pattern evolves, which is generally a favorable steering
flow for directing storms east and southeast off the Rockies and
higher terrain of northeast New Mexico. For now, this far out in
time, have undercut superblend pop values some and trended more
with slgt chc to chc values from Monday thru Thursday. Better
refinements to the pops will become necessary as each day gets
closer.

Andrade

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.AMA Watches/Warnings/Advisories...
TX...Heat Advisory until 8 PM CDT this evening for the following
     zones: Armstrong...Carson...Gray...Hansford...Hutchinson...
     Moore...Ochiltree...Oldham...Potter...Randall...Roberts.

     Excessive Heat Warning until 8 PM CDT this evening for the
     following zones: Palo Duro Canyon.

OK...Heat Advisory until 8 PM CDT this evening for the following
     zones: Texas.

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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
600 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018

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Palo Duro Canyon-
600 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Isolated thunderstorms are expected to continue into this evening
across the Oklahoma Panhandle and northern Texas Panhandle. A few
storms that form may become strong to marginally severe, with
damaging winds the primary hazard. In addition, locally heavy
rainfall may accompany the strongest, slow moving storms, which
may lead to localized flooding.

An Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect for the Palo Duro
Canyon State Park through 8 PM CDT, where high temperatures of
110 degrees are expected.

In addition, a Heat Advisory remains in effect until 8 PM CDT for
the central Oklahoma Panhandle and much of the Texas Panhandle on
the Caprock due to high temperatures of 105 to 109 degrees.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Isolated thunderstorms may develop Friday afternoon and evening
across the Oklahoma Panhandle and far northern Texas Panhandle. A
few storms that form may become strong to marginally severe, with
damaging winds the primary hazard.

Additional thunderstorms will be possible Sunday night through
Wednesday across much of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. A few
storms that develop may become strong to severe, with damaging
winds and large hail the primary hazards.

A Heat Advisory will likely become necessary Friday across parts
of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, and then for mainly Palo
Duro Canyon State Park on Saturday and Sunday as high temperatures
of 105 to 109 degrees are anticipated.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

Andrade