A tight pressure gradient during the early evening hours resulted in strong non-thunderstorm winds across the south central Texas Panhandle. however no injuries were reported.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
A tight pressure gradient during the early evening hours resulted in strong non-thunderstorm winds across the south central Texas Panhandle. Damage was reported in Armstrong County from these winds...however no injuries were reported.
At approximately 1649 CST...the Emergency Manager in Armstrong County reported that four panels of a metal roof of an outbuilding had blown off with wind gusts estimated between thirty-nine and forty-eight knots.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 14, 2:06 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 306 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 .DISCUSSION... CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY BEING OBSERVED ACROSS ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF THE TX/OK PANHANDLES THIS AFTERNOON UNDER STRONG ISENTROPIC ASCENT...GENERALLY UPSLOPE FLOW AND ENHANCED LARGE SCALE ASCENT VIA JET STREAK CIRCULATION AND QG FORCING. THIS PRECIPITATION WILL HANG ON FOR QUITE SOME TIME SO I SAW NO REASON TO NOT USE 100 PERCENT POPS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA FOR TONIGHT. THE WESTERN ZONES COULD SEE A PRECIPITATION BECOME MORE SCATTERED BY 00Z...SO I WENT SLIGHTLY LOWER WITH 1ST PERIOD POPS. OTHERWISE...A SOAKING RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL AREAS. CURRENT TEMPS ARE ALREADY BELOW MOS NUMBERS FOR TONIGHT BUT ARE NEAR SATURATION ALREADY SO LITTLE DIURNAL TREND IS EXPECTED. PRECIPITATION CHANCES REMAIN RELATIVELY HIGH FOR SATURDAY AS ISENTROPIC ASCENT CONTINUES. SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING IS FORECAST TO INCREASE AGAIN DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS AS A LOBE OF ENHANCED DPVA OVERSPREADS THE REGION JUXTAPOSED WITH DEEP LAYER WARM ADVECTION. SLIGHTLY WARMER SURFACE TEMPS SHOULD ENHANCE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE REGION ALTHOUGH IT STILL MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR ANY CONVECTION TO BECOME ROOTED IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER...RESULTING IN ADDITIONAL ELEVATED STORMS. ANY AREAS THAT SEE BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS TOMORROW AFTERNOON MAY BE A LOCATION TO WATCH FOR MORE INTENSE CONVECTION ALTHOUGH STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN NON-SEVERE. ON SUNDAY...A WEAK COLD FRONT/SURFACE TROF IS PROGGED TO DIP SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHERN TX PANHANDLE. MOISTURE POOLING ON THE WARM SIDE OF THIS BOUNDARY MAY INCREASE THE THREAT FOR DIURNALLY FORCING CONVECTION WITH LESSER CHANCES FARTHER NORTH. THE PRIMARY MITIGATING FACTOR IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING UPPER LEVEL TROF. THE GFS IS MORE AGGRESSIVE IN PUSHING THE AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARY SOUTH BUT THE NAM LOOKS QUITE REASONABLE...STALLING THE FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE CWA BEFORE LIFTING IT BACK NORTH ON MONDAY. THE PRESENCE OF SHORTWAVE RIDGING ALOFT AND THE LACK OF ANY LARGE SCALE FORCING IS A CONCERN ON MONDAY. HOWEVER...CONTINUED MOIST CONDITIONS AND THE RETREATING BOUNDARY IN THE VICINITY WILL KEEP PRECIP CHANCES IN THE FORECAST. SIMILARLY MOIST CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH SYNOPTIC SCALE ASCENT INCREASING AHEAD OF A WEST CONUS TROF. THE MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE PRODUCTS ARE NOW IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH A RATHER MESSY PATTERN OF SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS FOR MID-WEEK ALTHOUGH THE ECMWF IS NOTABLY SLOWER. AS THE WEST CONUS TROF SLOWLY MOVES EAST...LEE CYCLOGENESIS WILL COMMENCE. A SURFACE TROF /DEWPOINTS REALLY DO NOT SUPPORT A DRYLINE/ SHOULD ENHANCE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. CURRENT GFS POINT SOUNDINGS INDICATE AMPLE INSTABILITY AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR. THIS COULD BE THE NEXT SEVERE WX THREAT... ESPECIALLY FOR THE EASTERN TX/OK PANHANDLES. I RETAINED THE LOW POPS FOR THURSDAY SINCE THESE CLOSED LOWS TEND TO MOVE A BIT SLOWER THAN FORECAST /AS THE CURRENT ECMWF DEPICTS/ BUT IF THE CURRENT GFS SOLUTION COMES TO PASS...THURSDAY MAY END UP DRY. FOR TEMPS...IF THE ECMWF VERIFIES...WE MAY NOT SEE MANY TEMPS ABOVE 70 DEGREES DURING THE NEXT WEEK WHILE THE GFS WANTS TO WARM US UP INTO THE MID 80S. I BELIEVE THAT THE GFS IS A BIT TOO WARM ON MOST PERIODS GIVEN THE ANTICIPATED SOIL MOISTURE...CLOUD COVER AND PRECIP CHANCES. THE ECMWF/GFS DISPLAY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WITH THE TEMPERATURES TOWARD THE END OF THE FORECAST WITH THE ECMWF EXPERIENCING SIGNIFICANT WET BULBING. WILL LEAN TOWARD THE WARMER SOLUTION FOR THURSDAY/FRIDAY AT THIS TIME GIVEN CLIMATOLOGY. JOHNSON && .FIRE WEATHER... THE PRESENTLY OCCURRING PRECIPITATION AND FUTURE RAIN CHANCES WILL KEEP FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AT A MINIMUM FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS. JOHNSON && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMARILLO TX 52 66 55 76 54 / 100 60 40 20 5 BEAVER OK 49 65 54 75 50 / 100 60 50 20 5 BOISE CITY OK 47 67 51 72 49 / 100 40 40 20 5 BORGER TX 53 68 57 77 56 / 100 60 40 20 5 BOYS RANCH TX 52 67 53 77 54 / 90 50 40 20 5 CANYON TX 53 67 54 76 53 / 90 50 40 20 10 CLARENDON TX 54 68 58 78 57 / 100 70 40 20 10 DALHART TX 49 67 51 74 50 / 90 40 40 20 5 GUYMON OK 50 67 53 74 51 / 100 50 50 20 5 HEREFORD TX 54 67 52 76 52 / 90 50 30 20 5 LIPSCOMB TX 51 66 55 77 51 / 100 70 50 20 10 PAMPA TX 53 66 56 75 55 / 100 70 40 20 10 SHAMROCK TX 56 68 58 79 56 / 100 80 50 20 10 WELLINGTON TX 57 69 59 80 59 / 100 80 50 20 10 && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 24/14
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 210 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-150900- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 210 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES THROUGH TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME BUT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IN ADDITION...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ACROSS ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED ON SATURDAY...BUT A FEW STRONG STORMS MAY DEVELOP AND PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE MIDWEEK WITH HAIL AND STRONG WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. ALSO...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY ON SATURDAY WHICH COULD LEAD TO AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JJB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 127 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 TXZ013-018-141900- CARSON TX-ARMSTRONG TX- 127 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR ARMSTRONG AND CARSON COUNTIES. AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE MONITORING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF CLAUDE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. JJB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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