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Fire Weather Watch 21, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 13, 2022, 2:39 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Apr 14, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2022, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2022, 3:53 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 420 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
- 1692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 13, 2:18 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 2:18 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 2:30 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 230 PM CDT Wed Apr 13 2022 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-141100- 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 PM CDT Wed Apr 13 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Elevated to critical fire weather conditions expected this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Elevated or critical fire weather conditions expected for part so the Panhandles Thursday, Friday and Tuesday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time. Area fire managers and emergency officials should be alert for elevated or critical fire weather conditions this afternoon, Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday.
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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.