An arctic front moved across the Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 10th. This front caused sustained winds to increase into the 35 mph range with gusts ranging from 45 to 55 mph.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
An arctic front moved across the Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 10th. This front caused sustained winds to increase into the 35 mph range with gusts ranging from 45 to 55 mph. One gust was able to reach 58 mph at the West Texas Mesonet site 1 miles west-southwest of Boys Ranch (Oldham County). This was an isolated report and no other high wind gusts were reported.
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 Nov 10, 5:52 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
552 PM CST MON NOV 10 2014
.AVIATION...
FOR THE 00Z TAFS...AS A COLD FRONT SURGES SOUTH THIS EVENING. A BRIEF
PERIOD OF MVFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT KDHT AND KAMA DUE TO
BLOWING DUST. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH
THE PERIOD AT ALL SITES. STRONG NORTH WINDS AT ALL SITES THROUGH
TUESDAY MORNING...WITH 30 KTS SUSTAINED AND GUSTS OF 40-45 KTS THIS
EVENING DECREASING GRADUALLY OVERNIGHT. WINDS SHOULD BE LIGHT AND
NORTHEASTERLY BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
NF
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 256 PM CST MON NOV 10 2014/
DISCUSSION...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY
IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE, THE FRONT IS HERE! IN SPITE OF OUR BEST
EFFORTS TO PUSH BACK AGAINST IT...THE COLD FRONT IS ABOUT TO ENTER
THE OK PANHANDLE AND SHOULD CLEAR THE SRN TX PANHANDLE BY 8 PM. WITH
IT, EXPECT WINDS TO GUST TO 50 MPH, ISOLATED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST,
AND OF COURSE, GOODBYE TO THE 80S.
OUR HARD FREEZE IS COMING TONIGHT (AND TOMORROW NIGHT AND THE NIGHT
AFTER THAT AND...WELL YOU GET THE POINT).
DRY WEATHER SHOULD BE THE RULE THROUGH THE WEEK. MODEL DISCREPANCIES
REMAIN PREVALENT THIS WEEKEND...BUT SIGNS ARE POINTING TOWARD A
BRIEF MODERATION OF TEMPS TOWARD 50 BY FRI AND SAT FOLLOWED BY
ANOTHER SHOT OF COOLER AIR FOR THE LATE WEEKEND. HAVE LEFT 20
PERCENT CHANCES FOR LIGHT RAIN OR SNOW OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT THOSE
MAY BE HIGH.
SIMPSON
FIRE WEATHER...
VERY COLD AIR BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT TONIGHT WILL PRECLUDE
ELEVATED OR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
HOWEVER...FUELS WILL BE CURED UP QUICKLY BY THE HARD FREEZES MEANING
GRASSLAND FIRE CONCERNS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THE NEXT TIME WE GET
DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS.
SIMPSON
&&
.AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...HARD FREEZE WARNING FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: ARMSTRONG...CARSON...
COLLINGSWORTH...DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...DONLEY...GRAY...
HANSFORD...HARTLEY...HEMPHILL...HUTCHINSON...LIPSCOMB...
MOORE...OCHILTREE...OLDHAM...POTTER...RANDALL...ROBERTS...
SHERMAN...WHEELER.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM CST TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
ARMSTRONG...CARSON...COLLINGSWORTH...DALLAM...DEAF SMITH...
DONLEY...GRAY...HANSFORD...HARTLEY...HEMPHILL...
HUTCHINSON...LIPSCOMB...MOORE...OCHILTREE...OLDHAM...
POTTER...RANDALL...ROBERTS...SHERMAN...WHEELER.
RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
ZONES: ARMSTRONG...CARSON...COLLINGSWORTH...DEAF SMITH...
DONLEY...GRAY...OLDHAM...POTTER...RANDALL...WHEELER.
OK...HARD FREEZE WARNING FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM CST WEDNESDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BEAVER...TEXAS.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM CST TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
BEAVER...CIMARRON...TEXAS.
&&
06/03HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 432 PM CST MON NOV 10 2014 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-111045- CIMARRON-TEXAS-BEAVER-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HANSFORD-OCHILTREE-LIPSCOMB- HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-HEMPHILL-OLDHAM-POTTER-CARSON- GRAY-WHEELER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL-ARMSTRONG-DONLEY-COLLINGSWORTH- 432 PM CST MON NOV 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. RED FLAG WARNING CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED BEHIND A COLD FRONT THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A HARD FREEZE IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE PANHANDLES LATE TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 20S IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HARD FREEZES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE PANHANDLES EVERY MORNING THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High wind gust of 58 mph reported at 1WSW Boys Ranch WTM.
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