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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 30, 200830 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 30, 2008, 2:59 PM CST for 30 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 31, 2008, 3:51 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 30, 2008, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2008, 3:51 AM CST
Expired: Jan 31, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

All 30 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Robertson 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 3377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 467 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 Jan 30, 11:40 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 11:40 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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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
Jan 29, 9:43 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton and 17 more	20 hr
Jan 29, 9:54 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 27 more	17 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 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.