Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this red flag warning at Feb 26, 2009, 3:52 AM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Feb 26, 2009, 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 26, 2009, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
Counties Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 4332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.