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Red Flag Warning 28, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 23, 200812 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at May 23, 2008, 5:25 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at May 23, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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: May 23, 2008, 5:25 AM CDT (10:25 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 23, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Amarillo, TX

Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 287 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 17.0

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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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 23, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:41 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	AMA	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, Potter and 2 more	13 hr
May 23, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	50 min
May 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Lipscomb	14 min
May 23, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	25 min
May 23, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	55 min
May 23, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	61 min
May 23, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Beaver	37 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008 Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2008 Every red flag warning in 2008

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.