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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze watch at Oct 14, 2021, 2:33 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 15, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2021, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2021, 2:29 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 743 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 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 14, 12:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 12:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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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.