Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2012, 4:28 AM CST for 13 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 15, 2012, 11:19 AM 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 15, 2012, 4:28 AM CST (10:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2012, 11:19 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 3486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 404 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
832 WWUS84 KAMA 151028 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 428 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 TXZ011-012-016-017-152230- /O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0001.120115T1800Z-120116T0000Z/ OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 428 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN TEXAS...OLDHAM...POTTER...DEAF SMITH... RANDALL. * WIND: SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL BETWEEN 12 AND 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP SHORTLY AFTER NOON TODAY AND PERSIST THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 6 PM AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES INCREASE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER...AND AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER RATING WILL CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS. && $$ TB FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
1 follow-up statement
942 WWUS84 KAMA 151719 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1119 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 TXZ001-006>009-013-014-018-019-160000- /O.EXB.KAMA.FW.W.0001.120115T1719Z-120116T0000Z/ DALLAM-HARTLEY-MOORE-HUTCHINSON-ROBERTS-CARSON-GRAY-ARMSTRONG- DONLEY- 1119 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN TEXAS...DALLAM...HARTLEY...MOORE... HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...CARSON...GRAY...ARMSTRONG...DONLEY. * WIND: SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL BETWEEN 10 AND 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AROUND NOON TODAY AND PERSIST THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 6 PM AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES INCREASE AND WINDS GRADUALLY DIMINISH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER...AND AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER RATING WILL CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS. && $$ TXZ011-012-016-017-160000- /O.EXT.KAMA.FW.W.0001.120115T1719Z-120116T0000Z/ OLDHAM-POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 1119 AM CST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLE IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN TEXAS...OLDHAM...POTTER...DEAF SMITH... RANDALL. * WIND: SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY: MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL FALL BETWEEN 10 AND 15 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP AROUND NOON TODAY AND PERSIST THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE AFTER 6 PM AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES INCREASE AND WINDS GRADUALLY DIMINISH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 15 PERCENT OR LESS...SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF 20 MPH OR GREATER...AND AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER RATING WILL CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS. && $$ KB FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
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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.