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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this frost advisory at May 6, 2026, 11:35 AM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 7, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2026, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2026, 8:09 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Carson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 373 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
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:56 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Ochiltree, Sherman | 33 hr |
Nearby
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.