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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 24, 2021Lipscomb County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2021, 4:50 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 24, 2021, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

County Lipscomb County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -380 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 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 Jun 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
233 PM CDT Thu Jun 24 2021

OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-250745-
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-
233 PM CDT Thu Jun 24 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening across the
Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. Some storms will have the potential
to become severe, with damaging winds the primary hazard.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Thunderstorms will be possible across most of the Oklahoma and
Texas Panhandles Friday afternoon through Wednesday. The greatest
potential for strong to severe thunderstorms appears to be Friday
and Saturday, with large hail and damaging winds the primary
hazards in addition to locally heavy rainfall.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Limited spotter activation may become necessary late this
afternoon and evening.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:39 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:50 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
Jun 23, 8:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	24 min
Jun 24, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	36 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hutchinson	28 min
Jun 24, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Roberts	36 min
Jun 24, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	24 min
Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam, Hartley	40 min
Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Oldham	25 min
Jun 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Dallam	35 min
Jun 24, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Sherman	37 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.