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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2018, 3:41 AM CDT for Collingsworth County, Wheeler County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 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
- Oct 14, 2018, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2018, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 14, 3:40 AM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 3:40 AM CDT, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 3:41 AM CDT | Hard Freeze Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 12 more | 31 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:36 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore and 2 more | 5 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.