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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS San Angelo, TX

February 23, 200814 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2008, 3:34 AM CST for 14 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 23, 2008, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 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 23, 2008, 3:34 AM CST (09:34 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 23, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 23, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 8:40 PM CSTFire Weather WatchSJTFisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Taylor7 hr
Feb 23, 3:31 AM CSTLake Wind AdvisorySJTCoke, Coleman, Concho, Jones, Nolan, Runnels and 2 more14 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2008Every 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.