Alert archive / Texas / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT for Deaf Smith County, Potter County, Randall County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 13, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2012, 7:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Deaf Smith County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 4468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
590 WWUS84 KAMA 131945 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 245 PM CDT TUE MAR 13 2012 TXZ012-016-017-140100- /O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0010.120313T1945Z-120314T0100Z/ POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 245 PM CDT TUE MAR 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN TEXAS...POTTER...DEAF SMITH...RANDALL. * WIND:WINDS OF 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * HUMIDITY: RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL STAY BETWEEN 5 AND 15 PERCENT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * TIMING: CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE DEVELOPING NOW AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNSET...WHEN RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL 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. && $$ JOHNSON FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
1 follow-up statement
357 WWUS84 KAMA 140032 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 732 PM CDT TUE MAR 13 2012 TXZ012-016-017-140145- /O.CAN.KAMA.FW.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120314T0100Z/ POTTER-DEAF SMITH-RANDALL- 732 PM CDT TUE MAR 13 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW 20 MPH ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES REMAIN IN THE 5 TO 10 PERCENT RANGE. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS BY LATE THIS EVENING OR JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. $$ SCHNEIDER 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.