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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 18, 2021Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2021, 6:28 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2021, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2021, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:17 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 2:28 PM CDT, 4 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 18, 5:53 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 5:54 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 6:03 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 6:28 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Randall	21 min
May 17, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman	60 min
May 17, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall	60 min
May 17, 7:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Randall	3 hr
May 17, 7:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	36 min
May 17, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Randall	27 min
May 17, 7:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 17, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Moore	24 min
May 17, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter and 1 more	76 min
May 17, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	55 min
May 17, 8:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	AMA	Dallam, Hartley, Oldham	52 min
May 17, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray	66 min
May 17, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam, Sherman	34 min
May 17, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Roberts	67 min
May 17, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter and 2 more	60 min
May 17, 9:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hansford, Hemphill, Ochiltree, Roberts	23 min
May 17, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts	62 min
May 17, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Lipscomb	49 min
May 18, 6:43 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter, Randall	2 hr
May 18, 10:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	44 min
May 18, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Deaf Smith	62 min
May 18, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham	97 min
May 18, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	39 min
May 18, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter	90 min
May 18, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	44 min
May 18, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Randall	86 min
May 18, 5:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Potter, Randall	3 hr
May 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	33 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Hutchinson	3 hr
May 18, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	42 min
May 17, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	25 min
May 17, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	49 min
May 18, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Cimarron	46 min
May 18, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	51 min

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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.