Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 28, 2008, 3:37 PM CST for 33 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 29, 2008, 4:11 AM CST. It was in force for 15 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
- Jan 28, 2008, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 29, 2008, 4:11 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 15 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 21:40 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, 9.6 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
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 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 282137 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 337 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR TUESDAY. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION ON TUESDAY...BRINGING WINDY CONDITIONS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...THUS CREATING A HIGH FIRE DANGER. TXZ222-224-282245- /O.CAN.KEWX.FW.A.0001.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ KARNES-DE WITT- 337 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TUESDAY. THE 20 FOOT WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 MPH TUESDAY MORNING AND REMAIN ABOVE 15 MPH THROUGH 7PM. HOWEVER, RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 25 PERCENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON. $$ TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>221-223-225-228-291200- /O.UPG.KEWX.FW.A.0001.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0004.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-GONZALES-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 337 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CST TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON TUESDAY...BRINGING STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15-25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE LESS THAN 25 PERCENT. THE COMBINATION OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KEWX 282143 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 343 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR TUESDAY. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION ON TUESDAY...BRINGING WINDY CONDITIONS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...THUS CREATING A HIGH FIRE DANGER. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>221-223-225-228-291200- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0004.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ 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-GONZALES-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 343 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CST TUESDAY... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CST TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON TUESDAY...BRINGING STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15-25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE LESS THAN 25 PERCENT. THE COMBINATION OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER. 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. $$
000 WWUS84 KEWX 291011 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 411 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FOR TODAY. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING WINDY CONDITIONS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...THUS CREATING A HIGH FIRE DANGER. TXZ222-224-300100- /O.EXA.KEWX.FW.W.0004.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ KARNES-DE WITT- 411 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY...BRINGING STRONG WEST/NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE LESS THAN 25 PERCENT. THE COMBINATION OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$ TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>221-223-225-228-300100- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0004.080129T1700Z-080130T0100Z/ 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-GONZALES-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 411 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY...BRINGING STRONG WEST/NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE LESS THAN 25 PERCENT. THE COMBINATION OF THESE PARAMETERS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH FIRE DANGER. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 5:25 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 10 hr |
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.