Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Oct 24, 2007, 4:22 AM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 24, 2007, 12:00 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
- Oct 24, 2007, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 33 counties
Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KEWX 240922 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 422 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY FROM NOON TO 6 PM TODAY... .NORTH AND NORTHWEST 20 FOOT WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-242030- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0013.071024T1700Z-071024T2300Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 422 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH AND NORTHWESTERLY 20 FOOT WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES THIS AFTERNOON WILL FALL TO 20 TO 25 PERCENT. THESE CONDITIONS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES. WIND SPEED WILL RAPIDLY DECREASE EARLY THIS EVENING AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KEWX 242024 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 324 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... .NORTH AND NORTHWEST 20 FOOT WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL PERSIST INTO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN BETWEEN 20 AND 25 PERCENT INTO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-242300- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-071024T2300Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 324 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH AND NORTHWEST 20 FOOT WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL PERSIST UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN BETWEEN 20 TO 25 PERCENT INTO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE CONDITIONS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES. WIND SPEEDS WILL RAPIDLY DECREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER EARLY THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
Nearby
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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.