Drought conditions continued over the western Oklahoma Panhandle.
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The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Drought conditions continued over the western Oklahoma Panhandle.
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 Jan 31, 11:18 PM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Amarillo TX 1118 PM CST Fri Jan 31 2020 .AVIATION... Light winds overnight will gradually become southwest and occasionally gusty by mid day. Winds will then decrease toward sunset. Skies are expected to remain VFR. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 530 PM CST Fri Jan 31 2020/ AVIATION...00Z TAF Cycle... VFR conditions are expected through the period with occasional cirrus traversing from the northwest. Winds have generally become more westerly a 5 to 10 knots, and should stay westerly for most of the period. Ward PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 249 PM CST Fri Jan 31 2020/ SHORT TERM... The cold front came through this morning and has left us with abundant sunshine and northerly winds. Satellite still shows snow on the ground up in the OK Panhandle and into Kansas. These areas will remain cooler tomorrow compared to the rest of the area as highs will top out in the mid to upper 60s with lower 60s in the snowy parts. Lee side troughing will develop tomorrow and bring southwest surface winds to the Panhandles which is where the warmer air will be coming in from since the upper levels will still be pumping northerly flow across. The dry air combo from both upper and lower levels will keep the area dry for the start of the weekend. Beat LONG TERM... Will be watching for another system to possibly bring winter weather Monday night through Wednesday evening. Saturday night, north to northwest flow aloft will be present just before a 500 mb ridge traverses the desert southwest and begins to move over the FA by Sunday morning. The ridge will move over the area bringing warmer temperatures across the area, with well above normal temperatures but not quite record breaking. Sunday afternoon a leeside surface low will develop in eastern Colorado. Breezy pressure gradient winds from the low, along with low dewpoints from the west and the above normal temperatures will bring some concern for elevated fire weather conditions, primarily in the northwest FA. Winds will be increasing shortly before sunset which may help reduce the longevity of the fire weather conditions as relative humidity recovers with nocturnal cooling. Lows in the central to eastern Texas Panhandle could be in the low 40s Monday morning, with the northwest FA cooling off about 10 degrees cooler. During the day Monday an H5 shortwave trough will move down over the northwest CONUS and developing a closed low over Utah by 00Z Tuesday. The associated cold front is looking to enter the Oklahoma Panhandle any time between 18Z Monday and 00Z Tuesday. The timing of the front will determine what the highs will be especially in the northern FA on Monday. This H5 trough and closed low will be the next chance for precipitation in the area as well as colder temperatures. With the colder temperatures at the surface and lack of a warm air aloft, it is looking like the type of precipitation will be primarily snow. The system is still 4 and 5 days out so there is still some uncertainty has to who might see precip in the FA, and how much. The current model output for the track of the low is looking like the most of the FA will be dry slotted with the exception of the Canadian model output. The NBM still has only 20 to 30 PoPs for the FA especially after 12z Tuesday and the QPF provided by the NBM is only one hundredth to three hundredths of an inch of liquid. Regardless of precipitation next week, it is looking like some colder temperatures are in store for the area. The high on Tuesday is not even looking to make it above freezing in the northwest FA and barely reaching 40 degrees else where with the exception of the far southeast Texas Panhandle possibly making it to the upper 40s. Tuesday night into Wednesday morning overnight lows could be in the teens with Kenton, Ok possibly in the single digits. There will be a gradual warming Wednesday on, with highs returning into the upper 50s on Friday. Hoffeditz FIRE WEATHER... Elevated fire weather conditions will be possible Sunday and Monday. Temperatures will be in 70s across the entire area on Sunday with 60s in the southern Texas Panhandle on Monday. Warm temperatures will aide in low minimum relative humidity. Also, 20 ft winds are looking to be 15 to 25 mph. Overall RFTI values are still coming in at the 1 to 2 range. ERC percentiles are still low but will most likely be on the climb through the weekend. There will be a wind shift Monday into Monday night behind a cold front. Hoffeditz && .AMA Watches/Warnings/Advisories... TX...None. OK...None. && 15/7
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Amarillo TX 254 PM CST Fri Jan 31 2020 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-317-011200- Cimarron-Texas-Beaver-Dallam-Sherman-Hansford-Ochiltree-Lipscomb- Hartley-Moore-Hutchinson-Roberts-Hemphill-Oldham-Potter-Carson- Gray-Wheeler-Deaf Smith-Randall-Armstrong-Donley-Collingsworth- Palo Duro Canyon- 254 PM CST Fri Jan 31 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Elevated fire weather conditions may develop on Sunday and Monday as dry winds increase. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Lack of appreciable precipitation throughout the month led to an area of severe drought persisting across the northern one-third of the county.
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