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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 13, 200823 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 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: Mar 13, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

All 23 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Mar 13, 2:35 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 2:35 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.