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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this red flag warning at Oct 24, 2012, 4:35 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It took effect at Oct 24, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. 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
- Oct 24, 2012, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
Counties Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
361 WWUS84 KAMA 240935 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 435 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2012 OKZ001-002-TXZ001-002-006-007-011-242300- /O.NEW.KAMA.FW.W.0019.121024T1800Z-121024T2300Z/ CIMARRON-TEXAS-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HARTLEY-MOORE-OLDHAM- 435 AM CDT WED OCT 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: IN OKLAHOMA...CIMARRON...TEXAS. IN TEXAS... DALLAM...SHERMAN...HARTLEY...MOORE...OLDHAM. * WIND: SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT SPEEDS OF 20 WITH GUSTS NEAR 35 MPH AT THE 20 FOOT LEVEL. * HUMIDITY: 10 TO 15 PERCENT. * TIMING: THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND RECORD WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE FAVORABLE WEATHER FOR RAPID FIRE GROWTH AND SPREAD. AVOID ACTIVITIES THAT PROMOTE OPEN FLAMES AND SPARKS.. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
1 follow-up statement
852 WWUS84 KAMA 242313 RFWAMA URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 613 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2012 OKZ001-002-TXZ001-002-006-007-011-250015- /O.EXP.KAMA.FW.W.0019.000000T0000Z-121024T2300Z/ CIMARRON-TEXAS-DALLAM-SHERMAN-HARTLEY-MOORE-OLDHAM- 613 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHWESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA: IN OKLAHOMA...CIMARRON...TEXAS. IN TEXAS... DALLAM...SHERMAN...HARTLEY...MOORE...OLDHAM. * WIND: SOUTH SOUTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 8 PM BEFORE DIMINISHING BELOW 20 MPH. A COLD FRONT WILL ABRUPTLY SHIFT WINDS TO THE NORTH BETWEEN 10 PM AND 1 AM. * HUMIDITY: RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RISE ABOVE 15 PERCENT BY 7 PM. * TIMING: ELEVATED TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING. $$ JACKSON FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/AMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 11 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Texas, 2012Red Flag Warnings in Oklahoma, 2012Every red flag warning in 2012
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.