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Red Flag Warning 90, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this red flag warning at Aug 30, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 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
- Aug 30, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Counties Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 3121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960 WWUS84 KMAF 301821 RFWMAF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 121 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH MID EVENING FOR THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN... .UNSEASONABLY BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE WITH RH/S OF 10 TO 15 PERCENT AND RECORD DRY FUELS TO PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THE REMAINDER OF TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MID TUESDAY EVENING IN THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN. CONDITIONS SHOULD SLOWLY IMPROVE BY MID EVENING AS WINDS DIMINISH AND RH/S SLOWLY RECOVER. TXZ046>048-051>053-061>063-068>070-310300- /O.NEW.KMAF.FW.W.0090.110830T1821Z-110831T0300Z/ DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL-ECTOR-MIDLAND- GLASSCOCK-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- 121 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH FIRE DANGER FOR THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND/ODESSA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WIND...SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... AVOID THE USE OF OPEN FLAMES OR ANY ACTIVITIES THAT MAY GENERATE SPARKS. ACCIDENTAL IGNITIONS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW QUICKLY INTO DANGEROUS WIND- DRIVEN WILDFIRES. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/S NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MAF (ALL LOWER CASE)
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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.