Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2007, 3:11 PM CST for 33 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 24, 2007, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 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
- Feb 23, 2007, 3:11 PM CST (21:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2007, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 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 21:11 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 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 232111 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 311 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY MORNING TO 7 PM SATURDAY FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY... .A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS STATES PUSHING A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SATURDAY. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-240515- /O.UPG.KEWX.FW.A.0002.070224T1500Z-070225T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0004.070224T1500Z-070225T0100Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO- ATASCOSA-WILSON-DIMMIT- 311 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS STATES PUSHING A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SATURDAY. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW 25 PERCENT TO AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR FROM LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. 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. $$ TXZ209-222>225-240515- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0004.070224T1500Z-070225T0100Z/ FAYETTE-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- 311 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS STATES PUSHING A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SATURDAY. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW 25 PERCENT TO AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR FROM LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KEWX 240511 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1111 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO 7 PM SATURDAY FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY... .A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS STATES PUSHING A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SATURDAY. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-241300- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0004.070224T1500Z-070225T0100Z/ 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- 1111 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST SATURDAY. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS STATES PUSHING A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SATURDAY. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW 25 PERCENT TO AS LOW AS 10 PERCENT. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR FROM LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. 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. $$
000 WWUS84 KEWX 241256 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 656 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A DRYLINE AND PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. IN ITS WAKE...STRONG GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-242200- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0004.070224T1500Z-070225T0100Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 656 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. A DRYLINE AND PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. IN ITS WAKE...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AS HIGH AS 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW 20 PERCENT AND TO LESS THAN 10 PERCENT ACROSS THE WESTERN HILL COUNTRY AND EDWARDS PLATEAU. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. AFTER SUNSET...WINDS WILL DECREASE RAPIDLY AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
000 WWUS84 KEWX 242127 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 327 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .STRONG GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR THROUGH 7 PM CST. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-250100- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070225T0100Z/ 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- 327 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS 35 TO 40 MPH AND VERY LOW HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED THROUGH 6 PM...THEN DIMINISHING TO 15 TO 25 MPH AFTER 6 PM. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN BELOW 25 PERCENT THROUGH 7 PM. THIS WILL CONTINUE THE POTENTIAL FOR EXTREME FIRE WEATHER BEHAVIOR THROUGH 7 PM CST. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH TO 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER 7 PM AND TO 5 TO 10 MPH LATE TONIGHT. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER TONIGHT. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 3:24 PM CST | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 27 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.