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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this wind advisory at Jan 4, 2025, 2:35 AM CST for 16 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 5, 2025, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2025, 2:35 AM CST (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2025, 4:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2025, 2:41 PM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 338 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
- 1284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 3, 10:58 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 10:58 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2:39 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:43 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 10 more | 22 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:52 PM CST | Freezing Fog Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Sherman | 8 hr |
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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.