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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 1, 2021, 5:38 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
- Oct 1, 2021, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2021, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 50
County Deaf Smith County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Oct 1, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Amarillo TX 244 PM CDT Fri Oct 1 2021 .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Saturday Night... Low pressure system continues to spin up moisture over the Panhandles as it approaches from NM. Mostly showers, but isolated storms will continue through the evening hours. Nothing severe expected as the instability is minimal. Rain rates seem to be ranging from 0.25"-0.50" per hour. Right now flooding concerns are minimal, but there may be a few spots that manage multiple rounds and could have some localized challenges. Low will move across the Panhandles tonight and start to dry out from southwest to northeast, with all pops out of the area by 10AM Saturday morning. We will still have a cool/mild airmass over the Panhandles on Saturday, however with the clearing that's expected we should get decent daytime heating to bring highs in the 70s across the area. The low will lift to the northeast Saturday evening and give way to a building ridge, which should result in continued warm and dry conditions. Weber && .LONG TERM... Going into Sunday, especially Sunday night, the current upper level low that is impacting the Panhandles with clouds and rain today will start to move off to the east more as an open wave. A second low will be closed off and coming on shore in southern CA. The first low will begin to deepen and close off somewhere around southern IL to northern AL. The second low in CA will open into a negatively tilted trough around southern NV. This will leave slight ridging in between, over the FA. Flow aloft will be light and the main jet stream still stays well north over Canada. Near normal temperatures will exist in the extended with highs around the upper 70s to lower 80s, and lows in the 40s and 50s. No precipitation is expected in the forecast at this time. There may be some isolated shower and thunderstorm activity in ENE NM Sunday. Though this will be right up against the west TX/OK Panhandles. The chances for rain to make into into the western FA are very low at this time. Winds will remain light with a very tranquil extended period. 36 && .AMA Watches/Warnings/Advisories... TX...None. OK...None. && 89/36
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 1, 2:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 236 PM CDT Fri Oct 1 2021 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-020745- 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- 236 PM CDT Fri Oct 1 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Thunderstorms with heavy rain will continue through the evening across the Panhandles. Severe Weather not expected. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Thunderstorms are possible across the far northeastern Panhandles on Saturday morning. Severe Weather not expected. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 5:38 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
538 PM CDT Fri Oct 1 2021
TXZ016-012315-
Deaf Smith TX-
538 PM CDT Fri Oct 1 2021
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Deaf
Smith County through 615 PM CDT...
At 537 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 6
miles northwest of Hereford, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Hereford and Dawn.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3475 10259 3496 10259 3506 10217 3475 10217
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 263DEG 12KT 3487 10249
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
LFMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 1:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 44 min |
| Oct 1, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 34 min |
| Oct 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | AMA | Randall | 32 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.