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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 26, 200916 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 26, 2009, 10:37 AM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 26, 2009, 12:00 PM CDT. 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
Mar 26, 2009, 10:37 AM CDT (15:37 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 26, 2009, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 26, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX

Counties Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher 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, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 275 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2009-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 819 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2009-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 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
819 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 26, 6:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 6:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 12:39 PM CDTLake Wind AdvisorySJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 8 more5 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2009Every red flag warning in 2009

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.