Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 3, 2009, 3:28 PM CDT for Kinney County, Maverick County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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
- Apr 3, 2009, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 2950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KEWX 032028 RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 328 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .DRY AIR REMAINS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING BEFORE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES RECOVER AND WINDS DECREASE. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. OTHERWISE...ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. TXZ183-202-217-040200- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0013.090403T2028Z-090404T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.A.0008.090405T1200Z-090406T0300Z/ VAL VERDE-KINNEY-MAVERICK- 328 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. DRY AIR REMAINS ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING BEFORE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES RECOVER AND WINDS DECREASE. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PROMOTE FIRES THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. && $$ TXZ171-172-184>190-203>207-218>225-228-040200- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.A.0008.090405T1200Z-090406T0300Z/ LLANO-BURNET-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO- UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-ZAVALA-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON- KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 328 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PROMOTE FIRES THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. && $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KEWX 040103 AAA RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 803 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. OTHERWISE...ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. TXZ183-202-217-041200- /O.EXP.KEWX.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090404T0100Z/ /O.CON.KEWX.FW.A.0008.090405T1200Z-090406T0300Z/ VAL VERDE-KINNEY-MAVERICK- 803 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PROMOTE FIRES THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. && $$ TXZ171-172-184>190-203>207-218>225-228-041200- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.A.0008.090405T1200Z-090406T0300Z/ LLANO-BURNET-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO- UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-ZAVALA-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON- KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 803 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY SUNDAY. NORTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING INTO THE TEENS WILL CREATE POTENTIAL RED FLAG CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PROMOTE FIRES THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:28 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal and 20 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.