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Freeze Watch 3, NWS Amarillo, TX

October 14, 20216 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2021-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2021-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 511 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.