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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 26, 2010, 7:12 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 12 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, 2010, 7:12 AM CDT (12:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 356 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
- 1792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 714 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 Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 26, 6:41 AM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 6:41 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 6:57 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 657 AM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-262100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 657 AM CDT FRI MAR 26 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALONG WITH MINIMUM AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 10 TO 15 PERCENT WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE TODAY. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE TEXAS AND ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES WHERE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PERCENT AND STRONG SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. IN ADDITION...THE STRONG WINDS WILL REQUIRE BOATERS TO EXERCISE CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... 30 TO 40 MPH NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON SATURDAY. THIS MAY REQUIRE A WIND ADVISORY ON SATURDAY FOR MUCH OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JJB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:30 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 28 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010
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.