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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this high wind watch at Jan 19, 2018, 4:56 PM CST for 8 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 21, 2018, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2018, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2018, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2018, 3:59 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 3491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.