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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this frost advisory at Sep 28, 2020, 1:39 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Sep 29, 2020, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2020, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 29, 2020, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2020, 8:24 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 321 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
- 2323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Sep 27, 2:37 PM CDT, 23 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 2:37 PM CDT, 23 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 27, 2:31 PM CDT, 23 hours 8 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 231 PM CDT Sun Sep 27 2020 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-280745- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 231 PM CDT Sun Sep 27 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Tonight. North and northeast winds around 35 mph with higher gusts are expected across the southern Texas Panhandle this evening. A Wind Advisory is in effect for this area until Midnight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
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.