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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 14, 200815 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 14, 2008, 4:17 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 14, 2008, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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 14, 2008, 4:17 AM CST (10:17 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 14, 2008, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 14, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Comanche County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 13, 11:22 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 11:22 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 13, 11:20 PM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1120 PM CST WED FEB 13 2008

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141200-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
1120 PM CST WED FEB 13 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
THERE WILL BE AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER THURSDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN
HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE
WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHERE THE RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES WILL BE LOWEST.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO WEST TEXAS ON FRIDAY
AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY
MORNING. THIS WILL LEAD TO SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST
PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING...AND AGAIN IN THE SAME AREA
LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...HOWEVER CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 14, 4:50 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	11 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.