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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX

February 14, 2023Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this winter storm warning at Feb 14, 2023, 3:27 AM CST for Dallam County, Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Feb 15, 2023, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 14, 2023, 3:27 AM CST (09:27 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 15, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 15, 2023, 9:41 PM CST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 3243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 13, 10:52 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 10:52 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 13, 2:49 PM CST, 12 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 13, 9:27 PM CST, 6 hours 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
Feb 13, 9:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	33 min
Feb 14, 12:00 PM CST	Blowing Dust Advisory	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 6 more	5 hr
Feb 14, 12:39 PM CST	Blowing Dust Warning	AMA	Carson, Gray, Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	3 hr

Nearby

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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.