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Red Flag Warning 58, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 2008Loving County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at May 10, 2008, 3:44 AM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It took effect at May 10, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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: May 10, 2008, 3:44 AM CDT (08:44 UTC)
In effect from: May 10, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 10, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

County Loving County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 9, 2:32 PM CDT, 13 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 2:32 PM CDT, 13 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 2:06 PM CDT, 13 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 1:56 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	MAF	Andrews, Gaines, Loving, Ward, Winkler	40 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008 Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.