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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 2, 2010, 4:17 AM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 2, 2010, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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 2, 2010, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2010, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 3667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 Apr 1, 6:26 PM CDT, 9 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 6:26 PM CDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 3:11 PM CDT, 13 hours 6 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 311 PM CDT THU APR 1 2010 OKZ001>003-TXZ001>020-021100- ARMSTRONG-BEAVER-CARSON-CIMARRON-COLLINGSWORTH-DALLAM-DEAF SMITH- DONLEY-GRAY-HANSFORD-HARTLEY-HEMPHILL-HUTCHINSON-LIPSCOMB-MOORE- OCHILTREE-OLDHAM-POTTER-RANDALL-ROBERTS-SHERMAN-TEXAS-WHEELER- 311 PM CDT THU APR 1 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. .DAY ONE... CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES DUE TO STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS...FORECAST MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF 5 TO 15 PERCENT...AND EXTREMELY DRY FUELS. AS A RESULT...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES EXCEPT THE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE DUE TO STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. A FEW STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN FRIDAY ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. ANY STORMS THAT FORM ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AT THIS TIME. A FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE PANHANDLES SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THURSDAY NIGHT. NUTTALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:52 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:17 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 24 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.