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Red Flag Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 21, 200611 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Sep 21, 2006, 5:21 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 21, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
Sep 21, 2006, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 21, 2006, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 21, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Coke County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Sep 21, 3:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 20, 3:24 PM CDT, 13 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
324 PM CDT WED SEP 20 2006

TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-
140-154-155-168>170-212030-
FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO-
CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD-
TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE-
MASON-
324 PM CDT WED SEP 20 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE IN THE BIG COUNTRY TONIGHT...
AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM PASSES TO THE NORTH. WITH WEAK
INSTABILITY...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER
IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

WILDFIRE DANGER WILL BE ELEVATED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AS A SURFACE LOW IN KANSAS BRINGS STRONG
GUSTY SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALL TO
12 TO 20 PERCENT ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 7:24 PM CDTLake Wind AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 9 more24 hr
Sep 20, 7:24 PM CDTWind AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Fisher, Haskell and 9 more19 hr
Sep 20, 7:25 PM CDTFire Weather WatchSJTCallahan, Coke, Coleman, Crockett, Fisher, Haskell and 9 more10 hr
Sep 21, 5:21 AM CDTFire Weather WatchSJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 12 more23 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2006Every red flag warning in 2006

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.