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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 27, 2021Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2021, 12:40 AM CDT for Collingsworth County, Donley County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 27, 2021, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2021, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1447 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 27, 12:30 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 12:30 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 11:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 8:40 PM CDT, 4 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
840 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0823 PM     HAIL             8 E PERRYTON            36.39N 100.67W
05/26/2021  M2.50 INCH       OCHILTREE          TX   STORM CHASER

&&

BIEDA

Local storm report, May 26, 8:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
848 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0847 PM     FLOOD            PERRYTON                36.39N 100.80W
05/26/2021                   OCHILTREE          TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS WATER OVER ROADWAY
            ON 9TH AND MAIN AS WELL AS 15TH AND MAIN.

&&

BIEDA

Local storm report, May 26, 8:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
857 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0847 PM     HAIL             2 N PAMPA               35.57N 100.97W
05/26/2021  M1.00 INCH       GRAY               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

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BIEDA

Special weather statement, May 26, 9:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 12:40 AM 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 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	44 min
May 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson	44 min
May 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	57 min
May 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	51 min
May 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	50 min
May 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	38 min
May 26, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	65 min
May 26, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	59 min
May 26, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	39 min
May 26, 8:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	AMA	Lipscomb, Ochiltree	3 hr
May 26, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Deaf Smith, Randall	43 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	35 min
May 26, 10:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	41 min
May 27, 1:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Collingsworth	43 min
May 27, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Wheeler	34 min
May 27, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Donley	24 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	33 min
May 27, 3:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Texas	63 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.