Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 27, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Dec 26, 2008, 10:48 PM CST for 19 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 27, 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
- Dec 26, 2008, 10:48 PM CST (04:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 283 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 937 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 8:09 PM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | SJT | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Haskell, Jones and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Dec 27, 10:59 AM CST | Wind Advisory | SJT | Callahan, Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Haskell, Irion and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:21 PM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | SJT | Coke, Haskell, Jones, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor and 1 more | 99 min |
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.