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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this fire weather watch at Mar 15, 2021, 3:47 AM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Oldham County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 16, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2021, 3:47 AM CDT (08:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2021, 2:35 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 362 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
- 3235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 15, 3:08 AM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:08 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:35 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 29 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.