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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this winter storm warning at Jan 22, 2026, 12:58 PM CST for 18 counties in Texas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Jan 23, 2026, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 49 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
- Jan 22, 2026, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2026, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2026, 6:31 AM CST
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith 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, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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 12:00Z, 7.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 22, 5:26 AM CST, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 5:26 AM CST, 7 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 12:58 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 64 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2026Winter Storm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2026Every winter storm warning in 2026
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.