Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 22, 2011, 9:32 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 22, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 22, 2011, 9:32 AM CST (15:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 22, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2011, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Counties Edwards County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
028 WWUS84 KEWX 221532 RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 932 AM CST SAT JAN 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM TODAY FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY...MAVERICK...AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES FOR WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM SUNDAY FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY...MAVERICK...AND VAL VERDE COUNTY FOR DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS... .AS LOW PRESSURE INCREASES ACROSS WEST TEXAS TODAY...THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL INCREASE ACROSS EDWARDS...KINNEY...MAVERICK...AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES. SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO PICKUP TO 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO THE UPPER TEENS AND NEAR 20 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION. THE COLD FRONT WILL BRING RE-INFORCING DRY AIR...WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 20S BY EARLY AFTERNOON. TXZ183-184-202-217-222345- /O.NEW.KEWX.FW.W.0002.110122T1800Z-110123T0100Z/ /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0001.110123T1800Z-110124T0100Z/ VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-KINNEY-MAVERICK- 932 AM CST SAT JAN 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CST SUNDAY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
060 WWUS84 KEWX 222148 RFWEWX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 348 PM CST SAT JAN 22 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY...MAVERICK...AND VAL VERDE COUNTIES FOR WINDY AND DRY CONDITIONS... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 7 PM SUNDAY FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY...MAVERICK...AND VAL VERDE COUNTY FOR DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS... .SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL SLOWLY RECOVER OVERNIGHT. STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION. THE COLD FRONT WILL BRING RE-INFORCING DRY AIR...WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE 20S BY EARLY AFTERNOON. TXZ183-184-202-217-230600- /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110123T0100Z/ /O.CON.KEWX.FW.W.0001.110123T1800Z-110124T0100Z/ VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-KINNEY-MAVERICK- 348 PM CST SAT JAN 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CST SUNDAY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL PROMOTE FIRES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING IS COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM A LOCAL BURN BAN WHICH IS ISSUED BY LOCAL OFFICIALS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 5:32 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Val Verde | 15 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.