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Freeze Watch 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this freeze watch at Nov 3, 2021, 2:52 AM CDT for 19 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Nov 4, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 2021, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 4, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2021, 1:20 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
All 21 counties
Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 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 Nov 3, 2:48 AM CDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:48 AM CDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 3, 2:30 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 230 AM CDT Wed Nov 3 2021 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-032100- 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- 230 AM CDT Wed Nov 3 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Today through Tonight. Freezing temperatures are likely across all but the far southeast TX Panhandle tonight. Some areas may see a hard freeze. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Freezing temperatures are likely across all but the far southeast TX Panhandle Thursday morning. Some areas may see a hard freeze. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 1:20 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Donley, Oldham, Randall, Wheeler | 21 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:20 PM CDT | Hard Freeze Warning | AMA | Carson, Dallam, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill and 7 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Texas, 2021Freeze Watches in Oklahoma, 2021Every freeze watch in 2021
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.