Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 5, 2008, 3:33 AM CST for 19 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 5, 2008, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 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 5, 2008, 3:33 AM CST (09:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 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, Irion County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 4, 11:48 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 11:48 PM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 4, 3:15 PM CST, 12 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 315 PM CST MON FEB 4 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-052115- FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO- CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD- TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE- MASON- 315 PM CST MON FEB 4 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT TILL 6 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A OZONA TO SAN ANGELO TO ABILENE TO THROCKMORTON LINE. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE TEENS HAVE COMBINED WITH 20 FT WINDS NEAR 20 MPH TO PRODUCE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. OUTDOOR BURNING OF ANY KIND IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE HEARTLAND COUNTIES OF BROWN AND SAN SABA AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE PLAINS TONIGHT AND WILL COMBINE WITH RETURNING GULF MOISTURE TO PRODUCE A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM TUESDAY FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY, HEARTLAND, NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY, AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TUESDAY MORNING, USHERING IN COOLER AND DRIER AIR INTO THE REGION. BY AFTERNOON, RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO AT OR JUST BELOW 20 PERCENT ACROSS THE WATCH AREA AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY 20 FT WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. THESE CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH 6 AM TUESDAY FOR BROWN AND SAN SABA COUNTIES. LACY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 5, 1:53 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 153 AM CST TUE FEB 5 2008 TXZ140-154-155-050900- BROWN TX-MCCULLOCH TX-SAN SABA TX- 153 AM CST TUE FEB 5 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR BROWN... MCCULLOCH AND SAN SABA COUNTIES... AT 148 AM CST...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER SOUTHWESTERN TO NORTHEASTERN MCCULLOCH COUNTRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PLACID BY 200 AM CST ZEPHYR AND EARLY BY 210 AM CST BLANKET BY 220 AM CST PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS... ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:11 AM CST | Wind Advisory | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 13 more | 12 hr |
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.