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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 10, 2020, 3:38 AM CDT for Randall County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 10, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jul 10, 2020, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 10, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2020, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
County Randall County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 359 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 10, 12:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 12:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:38 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 6 more | 17 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.