A cold front moved through the Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 9th. The stronger surface pressure gradient and a well-mixed boundary layer allowed strong winds aloft reach the ground around midday.
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A cold front moved through the Texas Panhandle during the early morning hours of the 9th. The stronger surface pressure gradient and a well-mixed boundary layer allowed strong winds aloft reach the ground around midday. The AWOS near the town of Dumas (Moore County) reported sustained winds of 40 to 42 mph from 11:55 AM CST until 1:55 PM CST. By the early afternoon, the surface pressure gradient decreased sufficiently to prevent any further high winds.
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 Jun 9, 5:22 AM CST, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 622 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2014 .AVIATION... A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL HELP TO INCREASE THE NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS INTO THE 25 TO 30 KNOT RANGE WITH HIGHER GUSTS TODAY. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE TO AROUND 10 KNOTS WITH THE SETTING SUN THIS EVENING. SKIES WILL REMAIN VFR. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 522 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2014/ DISCUSSION... THE LATEST MCS IS CURRENTLY EXITING THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS WILL MARK THE LAST OF SEVERAL MCS/S WE HAVE SEEN IN THE ACTIVE PATTERN THAT HAS BEEN IN PLACE SINCE LATE LAST WEEK. A COMPACT CLOSED LOW WAS LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH AN ATTENDANT COLD FRONT CURRENTLY PUSHING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLES. NORTH/NORTHWEST WINDS IN WAKE OF THE FRONT WILL ADVECT IN MUCH DRIER/STABLE AIR TODAY...KEEPING MOST AREAS DRY. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTH/NORTHEAST PANHANDLES WHERE COLD TEMPS ALOFT WITH THE COMPACT UPPER LOW AND SOME WRAPAROUND MOISTURE WILL SUPPORT SOME SHOWERS AND MAYBE A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. INSTABILITY WILL BE VERY WEAK HOWEVER...AND THUS NO STRONG OR SEVERE CONVECTION IS ANTICIPATED. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE QUITE WINDY TODAY BY JUNE STANDARDS THANKS TO AN ENHANCED LOW-LEVEL PRESSURE GRADIENT BEHIND THE FRONT...ALONG WITH DOWNWARD MOMENTUM TRANSFER OF STRONGER WINDS ALOFT ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE VERTICALLY- STACKED LOW. PARTS OF THE NORTH/NORTHEAST PANHANDLES MAY FLIRT WITH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...SO THIS WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED THROUGH THE DAY. THESE NORTHERLY WINDS WILL ALSO KEEP TEMPS ON THE COOL SIDE TODAY...WITH HIGHS ONLY FORECAST TO REACH THE UPPER 60S TO UPPER 70S. THIS UPPER LOW WILL SLIDE OFF TO THE EAST TONIGHT...BRINGING AN END TO ANY SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES BY LATE EVENING. SUBSIDENCE WILL TAKE HOLD OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY AS SHORTWAVE UPPER RIDGING BUILDS OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES...KEEPING THE PANHANDLES DRY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ON THE REBOUND...WITH HIGHS CLIMBING BACK INTO THE 80S. IN A CONTINUED PROGRESSIVE PATTERN...A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE ROCKIES AND PLAINS WEDNESDAY...INDUCING LEE SURFACE TROUGHING WHICH WILL HELP TO DRAW SOME MOISTURE BACK NORTHWARD INTO THE AREA. THIS RETURN OF MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AND THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST SOME WEAK FORCING WILL SUPPORT A RETURN OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE GIVEN THE PROGGED INSTABILITY AND SHEAR. THE UPPER WAVE WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY. SOME MOUNTAIN CONVECTION MAY DEVELOP IN THE POST-FRONTAL UPSLOPE FLOW THURSDAY...AND MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE WEST OR NORTHWEST PANHANDLES THURSDAY EVENING/NIGHT. FRIDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE LOOKS TO HANG AROUND AT LEAST PARTS OF THE AREA...WITH THE DRYLINE POSSIBLY SHARPENING UP OVER THE WEEKEND. THUS THERE WILL PROBABLY BE SOME THUNDERSTORM CHANCES DURING THIS TIME...WITH WEAK IMPULSES MOVING THROUGH THE WEST/SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. HOWEVER...NOT MUCH CONSISTENCY IN SIGNALS REGARDING TIMING/LOCATION OF ANY SUCH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES AT THIS RANGE...AND CAPPING MAY BE AN ISSUE AS WELL. KB FIRE WEATHER... NO ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEXT WEEK DUE TO RECENT RAINFALL AND RESULTANT GREENUP OF FUELS. KB && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. && 15/08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1140 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-092100- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 1140 AM CDT MON JUN 9 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. IN ADDITION...STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OF 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 8 PM CDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE PANHANDLES WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLES THURSDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. CLK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained high winds of 40-42 mph at Dumas.
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