Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 6, 2008, 3:45 PM CST for 28 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 7, 2008, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 5 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 6, 2008, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2008, 4:08 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
All 28 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, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -146 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 062145 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 345 PM CST WED FEB 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TO 3 PM CST THURSDAY FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A PACIFIC FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING BREEZY WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS TO ALREADY DRY CONDITIONS. AS SOON AS THE WINDS SHIFT IN THE MORNING...IT IS LIKELY RED FLAG CRITERIA WILL BE MET...AS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL LOWER TO LESS THAN 25 PERCENT QUICKLY. THIS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-071300- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0009.080207T1400Z-080207T2100Z/ 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- 345 PM CST WED FEB 6 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TO 3 PM CST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TO 3 PM CST THURSDAY. A PACIFIC FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ON THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH POSSIBLE GUSTS TO 25 MPH TO THE REGION. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW 25 PERCENT AFTER THE WIND SHIFT. THIS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KEWX 070932 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 332 AM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 4 PM CST TODAY FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW 25 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON. TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-217>221-228-072200- /O.EXT.KEWX.FW.W.0009.080207T1700Z-080207T2200Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO- ATASCOSA-WILSON-DIMMIT- 332 AM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW 25 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL ALSO APPROACH RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU. EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. VERY DRY CONDITIONS PERSIST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. GRASSES ARE CURED AND PLENTIFUL RESULTING AMPLE FUEL FOR GRASS AND WILDLAND FIRES. CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO IMPROVE UNTIL THE SPRING RAINS RETURN RESULTING IN THE GREEN-UP OF VEGETATION. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. $$
000 WWUS84 KEWX 072208 RFWEWX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 408 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 4 PM CST FRIDAY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR TODAY... .WINDS WILL BE BREEZY ONCE AGAIN FRIDAY AS A TROUGH SWEEPS THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. WINDS WILL BECOME WESTERLY AT 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL LOWER TO LESS THAN 25 PERCENT. THIS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY. TXZ171>173-184>194-203>208-219>221-081300- /O.CAN.KEWX.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080207T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0010.080208T1600Z-080208T2200Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE- KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL- GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON- 408 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 4 PM CST FRIDAY... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 4 PM CST FRIDAY. THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. WINDS WILL INCREASE IN THE LATE MORNING OUT OF THE WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. 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. $$ TXZ183-202-217-218-228-072315- /O.CAN.KEWX.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080207T2200Z/ VAL VERDE-KINNEY-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-DIMMIT- 408 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON RESULTING IN LESS MIXING OCCURRING. THUS...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS OF 4 PM. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RECOVER SLOWLY THIS EVENING. $$ TXZ209-222>225-081300- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0010.080208T1600Z-080208T2200Z/ FAYETTE-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- 408 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 4 PM CST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 4 PM CST FRIDAY. EXTREME FIRE DANGER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. WINDS WILL INCREASE IN THE LATE MORNING OUT OF THE WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. 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 5, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lavaca | 14 min |
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.