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Special Weather Statement, NWS Amarillo, TX

August 23, 2024Hutchinson County, Texas

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2024, 5:21 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Aug 23, 2024, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2024, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Hutchinson County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 260 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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -635 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:41 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	17 hr
Aug 23, 1:05 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Randall and 1 more	31 hr
Aug 23, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Carson	34 min
Aug 23, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore, Potter, Roberts	30 min
Aug 23, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hemphill	27 min
Aug 23, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore, Potter	23 min
Aug 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	AMA	Oldham	38 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.